A Sheep Creek mine would bring economic development to the Bitterroot, but the U.S. Forest Service should ensure “needed ...

Vincent Logging, a family-owned logging company in Libby is working with Hecla Mining Company to manage its forested lands ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...

Libby, Mont. – Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as they ...

Finding of No Significant Impact Supports Exploration of World-Class Copper and Silver Deposit The Libby Project represents an important step in unlocking the potential of high-grade copper and silver ...

For nearly 70 years, a mining operation in Libby, Montana quietly poisoned an entire community. Workers showed signs of lung damage early on, yet executives suppressed the findings and pushed ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that ...

Libby, Montana looked like the perfect small town: mountains, forests, and a proud mining tradition. But the vermiculite pulled from its soil was contaminated with asbestos — and for decades, ...

A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small northwestern Montana town where thousands of people were exposed to asbestos ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...