Families waited anxiously as South African police cut off food and water to hundreds of illegal miners who entered an abandoned mine in search of leftover gold.
Officer Chace Hunton with the Little Rock Police Department was looking into reports of possible trespassing at an abandoned Arkansas apartment building last month when he heard muffled squeals.
In 2022, the New Mexico Legislature unanimously adopted a bill to kick-start uranium mine reclamation efforts, creating a revolving fund to help pay for cleanup around the state. But two years later, ...
She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with no job and a growing family to feed, risked arrest by descending thousands of feet into an abandoned gold mine, hoping to scrape enough of ...