Move will offer more aid to town; cleanup been going on for 10 years The declaration is the first issued by the agency, which has grappled with the "toxic legacy" of a mine outside Libby, Montana, ...

The Hecla Mining Company wants to know how much copper and silver ore exists at an old mining site 20 miles south of the town ...

Smoke from wildfires in North Idaho blew into the Flathead Valley on Wednesday as afternoon winds picked up. Air quality dipped to moderate levels from Columbia Falls to Libby and Thompson Falls as ...

Explore Libby, Montana's hidden tragedy. This picturesque town, nestled in the Kootenai River Valley, faced one of America's worst environmental disasters. Uncover the greed and negligence behind the ...

The pollution in Libby has been cleaned up, largely at public expense. W.R. Grace, which played a central role in the town’s tragedy, filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and paid $1.8 billion into an ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a ...

FILE - Environmental cleanup specialists work at one of the last remaining residential asbestos cleanup sites in Libby, Montana, in mid-September. BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue ...

Cabinet Resource Group in Troy, Mont., Bill Martin, 406-295-5258 Montana Environmental Information Center in Helena, 406-443-2520 or www.meic.org.

The railroad — now owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — hauled asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby, Montana, over decades.