A disoriented elderly man drove onto the frozen Berkeley Pit Monday night — and survived without incident, the Butte police department confirmed Friday. ‘‘We were extremely lucky as far as ...

The state’s plan to remove the Parrot tailings calls for dumping approximately 270,000 cubic yards of waste rock into the Berkeley Pit, cleanup officials disclosed at a meeting Tuesday night.

Around 3,000 snow geese died on the Berkeley Pit in November 2016. The night of the landing, the pit was "white with geese," MR officials said previously.