Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Hundreds of competitors from around the world will descend on Butte forthe Intercollegiate/International Mining Competition at Montana ...

BUTTE Montana Resources said Monday it will reopen its idled copper mine here and rehire as many as 350 workers by fall. The decision came just days after a state board approved a $2 million loan to ...

Several thousand migrating snow geese perished in the toxic Berkeley Pit water where they landed last week, mine officials said Tuesday. Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Company officials say ...

Butte residents want health professionals to look at the effects of dust from the Montana Resources open pit mine, heavy metals and other factors that could cause health problems. Those are among the ...

It would dwarf the Berkeley Pit: A hole blasted and dug into the Alaskan landscape about a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across. What could go wrong in the pursuit of what's touted as the largest known ...

BUTTE (AP) -- The company that has resumed copper mining here intends to spruce up an area near the Berkeley Pit viewing stand and landscape an area bordering the copper mine. The Berkeley Pit is a ...

BUTTE, Mont. – Paige Layne was several weeks into her new job as a security guard – standing watch outside the civic center in her hometown of Butte, Montana – when she found out exactly what it was ...