BUTTE, Mont. — A Mining City institution is back open after four years of hibernation. Matt’s Place, an iconic diner ...

Payday came this week for Tim Shields, Dan Mueller, Tyke Galle and Jesse Cleverly. Perched on the dirt plateau at Montana Resources, the men took a break from repairing machinery to look over their ...

Editor's note: This is Part Two of a two-part series. It looms in the distance, 5 miles from Interstate 90 and reaching 585 feet into the sky. The brick smokestack between Anaconda and Butte looms as ...

From 1845 to 1849, black rot would cover acres upon acres of Irish farmland that was once rich in potato crops. Referred to as the Great Potato Famine, nearly one million Irish men, women and children ...

Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

Anyone who claims to be an expert on everything there is to know about Butte hasn't met George Everett. As executive director of Mainstreet Uptown Butte, part of Everett's job is to be an expert on ...

It would dwarf the Berkeley Pit: A hole blasted and dug into the Alaskan landscape about a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across. What could go wrong in the pursuit of what's touted as the largest known ...

A notice from the Butte-Silver Bow government warning residents not to drink the water after an Aug. 13 cross contamination of mine water. (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick of the Daily Montanan) Earlier this ...

The state Supreme Court reinstated a key permit for the proposed Black Butte Copper Project. An underground copper mine in Montana near the Smith River that’s drawn legal fire from environmental ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...