In the bowels of a Bolivian mine that made the Spanish empire fabulously wealthy 500 years ago, high prices are driving a new ...

Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

A longtime journalist looks at, and mourns, the loss of local newspapers she had worked at as well as those in trouble nationwide.

Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health. Oh, how times have changed. Back then, smallpox had just helped ...

Sens. Warner and Kaine are demanding answers from the Mine Safety and Health Administration regarding its response to the tragic Rolling Thunder Mine accident in November 2025.

MISSOULA, Mont. — NBC MT Today: GNP's red buses, AG opposes Netflix merger, Missoula real estate trends ...

A lawsuit filed by the Shoshone Tribe challenges mineral mining near Death Valley National Park. Drilling for zeolite, a mineral used in kitty litter, could disrupt the groundwater that sustains the ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has seen staffing cuts and is no longer publishing certain mine inspection data.

A federal appeals court has overturned a judge's finding that BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people in a ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with BNSF in the railway's claim that it was required by law to accept shipment of the contaminated materials.

Following a civil trial, a jury in 2024 awarded $4 million each to the estates of the two people who died in 2020. Their families blamed the railroad for allowing asbestos-contaminated mining material ...

A federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s finding that BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people in a Montana mining town where thousands have been sickened by ...