Copper prices soar above $6 per pound, creating record profits for Butte's mining operations as electric vehicle demand and ...

Butte and Anaconda have been selected to co-host the 2008 National Summit of Mining Communities. The event, which will be held Sept. 7-11, will attract elected officials, leaders and industry people ...

Payday came this week for Tim Shields, Dan Mueller, Tyke Galle and Jesse Cleverly. Perched on the dirt plateau at Montana Resources, the men took a break from repairing machinery to look over their ...

The 90-foot-tall statue that overlooks the Silver Bow Valley from atop the East Ridge has turned 40. Our Lady of the Rockies was constructed over the course of six years from 1979 to 1985 via ...

Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...

It would dwarf the Berkeley Pit: A hole blasted and dug into the Alaskan landscape about a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across. What could go wrong in the pursuit of what's touted as the largest known ...

Ben and Christy Pickett purchased the historic Salvation Army building on East Broadway Street in Uptown Butte and plan to ...