Discovered by David Gowan, a prospector hiding from Apache pursuers in 1877 ... Composed of sandstone from the Pottsville Formation, the bridge dates back approximately 200 million years to the Coal ...

The court rejected an appeal from the nonprofit organization Apache Stronghold, which challenged the transfer of the site known as Oak Flat to the mining company Resolution Copper. In turning away ...

Jean Towle, director of the Pottsville Free Public Library, recalls retired director Nancy Smink, on Friday, June 6, 2025. Smink, who worked at the library for 40 years, died in May at age 77 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea from a group of Native American activists and supporters to block a copper mining company from destroying an Apache religious site. The high court ...

POTTSVILLE — Organizers say the inaugural Pottsville Film Festival, held downtown over the weekend, was well attended. The event featured screenings of dozens of films across 17 categories and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred.

Born Feb. 10, 1948, in the city, Smink was a 1966 graduate of Pottsville Area High School. She graduated from Albright College in Reading and then earned her master’s degree in library science ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to a land swap enabling mining at a sacred Indigenous site, garnering pushback from conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas.

Apache Junction police officer Gabriel Facio was wounded in a shooting on June 2. Roger Nunez, 37, used a "ghost gun" and was taken into custody, police said. The shooting escalated from a road ...

The Supreme Court said it will not hear a challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine by a group of Apache who consider the Arizona land sacred. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch dissented ...

The US Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear an appeal by the Apache Stronghold seeking to block the development of the Resolution Copper mine in Arizona. The mine is a joint venture between ...