Anaconda Copper Company

The number of Montanans who lost Medicaid coverage increased again in June. State and federal officials filed an agreement Tuesday with the Atlantic Richfield Company to pay for a cleanup of a former copper refinery in Great Falls.

What can we learn from the ways political corruption shaped Montana's past? And how can we keep up with all the special interests trying to influence…

After more than 30 years in limbo without a final cleanup agreement, the ink is drying on Butte’s big Superfund deal as we speak. What it means and why it…

In August 1917, Frank Little was the victim of a grisly murder in Butte. Little was a labor organizer who came to Butte to unify and radicalize Butte’s…

The federal agency that investigates health risks at Superfund sites is in Anaconda this coming weekend offering free arsenic and lead testing to the…

If you’ve ever driven through Southwest Montana on I-90, you’ve probably noticed the lone smoke stack standing sentinel near Anaconda. That’s the iconic…

More than 35 years after the Anaconda copper smelter closed, federal health officials are partnering with state and local governments to visit the town…

To many Columbia Falls residents the full closure of the local aluminum smelter was more a matter of when than if.That question was answered with…

Montana Tech mining engineering junior Krystal Martin and the eight other students in her lab class were taking turns using a heavy, pneumatic, jack-leg…