News Oklahoma's Cathy Tatom reported on efforts to clean up the Tar Creek Superfund site in Ottawa Co. Cleanup is still ...

Picher, Oklahoma faces a dangerous environmental crisis with lasting effects on its community and surroundings. This video ...

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 ...

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.

Now to the aftermath of a natural disaster here in the United States. State and federal officials in Picher, Oklahoma are trying to deal with damage from yesterday's deadly tornadoes. But the job ...

In early 2006, a federal study determined that areas of Picher and the surrounding communities of Cardin and Hockerville in Oklahoma were at risk of caving in. The area is honeycombed with ...

PICHER, Oklahoma -- Crews are demolishing what little is left of the Picher. A tornado ripped apart much of Picher in 2008. The federal government bought out any remaining residents. Picher sits ...

Could an entire town be wiped off the map by pollution? That’s exactly what happened to Picher, Oklahoma. Once home to thousands, it became so toxic that no one could stay. But how did it get this bad ...