PICHER, Okla. -- Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars since work began to clean up this former lead and zinc mining boomtown, progress is still being measured in inches or feet.

PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the ...

Picher, Okla. — A track hoe sidled up to the modest yellow brick church, paused for a moment to position itself, then drove its teeth into the roof with brutal efficiency. Shingles tumbled into ...

But the population of Picher, Oklahoma, slowly dwindled over the last several decades to now empty. The town Picher, Okla. is seen nestled among huge lead-laced piles of rock, Saturday ...

Starting this week, nearly every commercial building left standing in Picher, Oklahoma, will be demolished. But the owner of the last-remaining open business in Picher, which has been vacated over ...

PICHER, Okla. — The recent search for Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman turned up empty once again. Bible and Freeman were kidnapped out of Welch and killed in December 1999. Crews have been ...

Hurricane Kristy becomes first Category 5 storm without El Niño since 2010 ...

MIAMI, Okla. (KSNF/KODE) – An older sister of Cheryl Taylor, a Picher, Oklahoma, girl missing for 45 years, is providing Texas authorities with a DNA sample in hopes it is a match to the ...

Into the Shadows Picher, Oklahoma: America’s Most Toxic Ghost Town Posted: May 29, 2025 | Last updated: May 29, 2025 Could an entire town be wiped off the map by pollution? That’s exactly what ...

But the population of Picher, Oklahoma, slowly dwindled over the last several decades to now empty. Picher is found in far northeast Oklahoma, on the border of Oklahoma and Kansas. Part of Ottawa ...