In operation for more than 100 years, miners lowered down the Steward shaft must have continuously felt the need to fan ...

This week — if the government shutdown doesn't get in the way — the Environmental Protection Agency will announce the next chapter for the Butte Hill. After 34 years, the ...

After 12 years of secret talks on the Butte Hill Superfund cleanup, U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon opened the door a crack Tuesday. Acting on a joint motion from the Environmental Protection ...

Jim Robbins is a Montana-based freelance writer. He last wrote for the magazine about the West's wild wolves. Ghosts dwell among the living in Butte, Montana, a mining town haunted by its glory ...

owned in part by , the world's leading supplier of explosives, purchased 82.4 acres of land atop Butte Hill from Craig Chilton, a property developer who owns Chilton Logging Inc.; the estate of ...

Work is starting on the flats by the interstate and will slowly make its way up the Butte hill. This is being funded by TDS, and the hope is for nearly all of the city of Butte to be able to ...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it has reached an agreement that could conclude the cleanup of mining waste in Butte and remove the area from the Superfund ...

A project to remove a huge pile of toxic mining and smelting waste buried under Butte Hill is underway. Gov. Steve Bullock and several state officials and community leaders celebrated the start of ...