HELENA, Mont. — Butte’s Berkeley Pit is infamously known for its toxicity, but it’s also the site of vital minerals and rare earth elements. During a presentation to Montana’s Environmental Quality ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Discussions over the possibility of mining vital minerals and rare-earth elements from Butte’s Berkeley Pit took a step forward on Wednesday. The state’s Environmental Quality Council ...

HELENA, Mont. --Federal officials said Friday they have approved new measures meant to prevent a repeat of last fall’s mass bird deaths in a contaminated former open-pit mine in Montana, including ...

Berkeley Pit pumping temporarily stopped for several months as Montana Resources addresses north wall stability issues and ...

Josh Bryson of Atlantic Richfield/BP confirmed Thursday night that analysis to date suggests the Berkeley Pit is the preferred option for a repository to receive contaminated materials from Superfund ...

The Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana is so acidic it has the potential to fry birds inside out in a matter of hours. Locals, such as Mark Mariano, use a variety of methods to scare them away. The lake ...

An attempted remote-control boat launch at the edge of the Berkeley Pit was scrubbed Wednesday afternoon. Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Co. donated $50,000 to Montana Tech last year to ...

WILDLIFE -- Several thousand migrating snow geese perished in the toxic Berkeley Pit water where they landed last week in Butte, mine officials told the Montana Standard today. Montana Resources and ...

As a longtime adversary of the Environmental Protection Agency, Donald Trump’s selection of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA should give Montanans pause. More to the point and close to home, our own U.S.