“I’ve splattered that on my arms, and it leaves little red marks,” said Stierle, a biochemist and research professor, picking up the jar of water from the Berkeley Pit. “You definitely wouldn’t want ...

A 2010 emergency action plan, a safety precaution produced by Montana Resources, shows that if an extraordinary event did occur and caused a breach in the dam and water flowed out, it would travel in ...

The voluminous legal document outlining a “ forever plan” for the Berkeley Pit will get even thicker if Butte-Silver Bow has its way. The county's draft comments on the consent decree call for more ...

Butte, Mont. • There’s a tale told about a miner who found copper cans in his garbage dump in the early days of mining. Wastewater from copper mining had flowed through his land, he said, and turned ...

BUTTE - A federal judge has signed a brief order that determines the future of the Berkeley Pit. The order signed by U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon of Great Falls spells out a plan for treatment of ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin toured Butte's Berkeley Pit Superfund site, promising community partnership and faster progress on cleanup efforts.

Prepare to laugh, as Comedy Central takes on the topic of the Berkeley Pit as a tourist attraction. You have to admit the premise is naturally funny, said Miles Kahn, a producer for The Daily Show ...

In this file photo from March 2023, Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, shares details of a fish tagging project along Silver Bow Creek with students from Ramsay ...

BUTTE — The snow geese die-off in the Berkeley Pit late last year inspired Montana artist Nolan Salix to create a painting he hopes will encourage an in-depth look at all that happened. Two weeks ...

The trout returned to Silver Bow Creek but no one said life would be easy. The territory served by Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, includes Silver Bow Creek, ...