People in Butte can be deeply suspicious; they are used to a commerce of take and no give. The company extracted all it could from this place and then left a mess behind. So much has been taken from ...

Mark Thompson, vice president of Environmental Affairs for Montana Resources in Butte, readily acknowledged ... in treating water pumped from the Berkeley Pit. But Thompson said the volume of ...

Fiina Heinze and George Copyak were honored Sunday night during the annual St. Urho's event at the packed Helsinki Bar in ...

Gardner was manager of operations for Atlantic Richfield at its Butte mine when the pumps in the Berkeley Pit were turned off ... the mine,” Peoples told The Montana Standard last week.

At 5:45 p.m. the man minding the door at the Helsinki Bar in Butte's Finntown politely forbade ... including Finn Town — to feed the Berkeley Pit’s rapacious appetite and to create a buffer ...

From the echoes of booming mines to the trails blazed by Native American warriors and pioneers, Montana is a treasure trove of stories waiting to be discovered. The Berkeley Pit in Butte is a ...

No sooner did the Westminster judge crown giant schnauzer Monty as top dog and an email pinged in my mailbox from the Montana Historical ... the massive Berkeley Copper Pit. Lambert, however ...

In the late 1990s the Butte County ... members of the Pit River Tribe retrieved Ishi’s brain from the Smithsonian and his ashes from San Francisco. They conducted a burial service at a secret location ...

The battle intensified when a recently approved bill gave the chief of Butte’s paid fire department clear command over that department and the nine volunteer departments. Decades of animosity ...