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The Pikeview Quarry has marked the mountains west of Colorado Springs for more than a century. Now that mining operations have ceased, the city needs to figure out what to do with the scar.
Rashad Jackson was fishing Saturday afternoon with his paternal grandmother and his 26-year-old cousin, Stephon Gardner, when he slipped off the platform on which he was standing and fell 10 feet into ...
A long-running fracas over a century-old rock quarry in San Rafael tumbled into court yesterday, with neighbors, Marin County and the state all filing lawsuits to protect the community from ...
The bodies of a child and his adult cousin who disappeared while fishing at a rock quarry in Midfield on Saturday has been found. Midfield Mayor Gary Richardson said the child’s body was located first ...
The bodies of a 9-year-old boy and his 26-year-old cousin were found in a quarry after the man tried to rescue the boy from the water in Alabama, according to reports. Rashad Jackson, 9, and Stephon ...
A century old granite quarry will no longer be a 400-foot deep hole in the ground. The city of Atlanta will soon bore a five-mile long tunnel from the Chattahoochee River to fill the quarry with ...
The property, in the oldest town in the Berkshires, has an eye-catching amenity in its yard that makes for the perfect summer escape.
Plans to put a limestone quarry in the Old Hickory area have upset neighbors and pushed them to organize a grassroots campaign to stop it. When word reached Amy Pragnell, it took her less than two ...
An aerial view of the old Fisher’s Quarry mine, just off of Exit 10 north of state Highway 14 in east Vancouver, as seen in March 2015. The rock quarry is the site of a new condominium ...
Tragedy outside of Ashland after an accidental drowning at a popular outdoor swimming hole Thursday night. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says calls came in just after 7:15 pm Thursday night ...
He said when the rock fell, it splashed into a pond at the base of the old rock quarry. “Water and debris did go across the roadway on Taylor Avenue and we do have it closed down for that ...
The quarry also houses a man-made waterfall as part of the overall development. About 396,000 square feet of space were carved into the bedrock of the unused rock quarry in order to house the hotel.