Fencing and danger signs like these near Dragoon, Arizona, are meant to keep people out of abandoned mines. A new Colorado-based Environmental Protection Agency office is supposed to track and help ...

Investigation reveals dozens of dangerous abandoned mines in Western Pennsylvania Elizabeth Pollard died in December after falling into a sinkhole at an abandoned mine in Unity Township, Westmoreland ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with CNX Gas Co. for the plugging of more than 100 abandoned wells in four counties. The order includes 141 conventional ...

It came as news to Jeff Parsek that state records show there is an abandoned oil and gas well beneath his driveway. Parsek lives in a large ranch house right across the street from an elementary ...

Into Crabtree Creek, every minute of every day, seemingly clear water pours out of a long-abandoned mine, only to turn the rocks over which it flows a solid orange — the color created when the iron ...

MARGUERITE, Pa. - A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western Pennsylvania coal mine and rescuers worked late into the ...

A multi-state effort to find an Indiana man is underway after police discovered his car abandoned in Western Iowa. South Bend Police are searching for Tom Cordes, 41. He was reported missing June 30 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man is dead after a fire erupted Monday morning in an abandoned house in Raleigh. It happened on Schaub Drive near Western Boulevard. The call was originally reported as a ...

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Wednesday for a new office that will focus on tracking and cleaning up abandoned mines in Western states, a particular problem in ...