Discover the fascinating history of America's Top 5 Abandoned Towns, or Ghost Towns. See why Bodie, Centralia, Rhyolite, and more were left behind.

A rural Nevada gold miner has filed a lawsuit that claims he was injured when 900 pounds of equipment fell on him.

Nevada lawmakers are once again taking the lead in a bipartisan effort to reverse a court ruling adopting a stricter ...

Reporting by the New York Times found that Budd-Falen did not disclose a deal between her husband, Frank Falen, and Lithium ...

Explore seven of the most fascinating abandoned mines in Texas and learn a bit about their history, location, and eerie ...

FORT MCDERMITT — Learning the protocol for “unanticipated discoveries” is a mandatory part of visitor training for the site where Lithium Americas, a mining company originally from Canada, plans to ...

Senate appropriators have quietly proposed shuffling millions of infrastructure law dollars from two popular environmental remediation programs to federal firefighting initiatives. The Senate’s fiscal ...

The Rush Township supervisors approved a conditional use permit this week for a solar project that would repurpose nearly 2,000 acres of abandoned strip coal mining land. Contingent on the approval of ...

New Mexico's Environment Department plans to finish cleaning up at least one abandoned uranium mine by next summer, and has begun site evaluations at 15 uranium mine and mill sites in the northwest ...

A man in Nevada County was rescued from an abandoned mine shaft after falling in while searching for a lost dog. According to ABC10, the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department responded late ...

A 54-year-old hiker’s fatal fall into an abandoned mine shaft near Ouray last month highlights a broader danger left behind by Colorado’s rich mining history: more than 23,000 inactive mining sites, ...

The industrial foundations of Cumberland run deep. ACET researchers are determining how these now-abandoned coal mines under the village could generate geothermal energy to heat and cool buildings.