"This land is your land - until a foreign mining company wants it," writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

A California teen had to be rescued by a specialized team after becoming trapped in an abandoned mine shaft trying to save ...

On a quiet Saturday evening in Nevada County, California, a 15-year-old boy risked his life for his two dogs—and ended up ...

Many other states fund their abandoned-mine programs through coal-mine taxes. But Arizona, California and Nevada produce little or no coal. “If you don’t have any coal mines in your state ...

Thousands of chicks found abandoned inside a postal service truck for three days have gone to new homes, according to the Delaware shelter ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and ...

After the Maserati slammed into a parked pickup and tree on a Del Mar street, the driver fled. More than a half hour passed ...

A British-South African endurance athlete is closing in on the finish line of his 62-mile (100-kilometer) multi-day swim ...

Katherine C. Imus was enrolled in Georgiana Bruce Kirby’s semi-public school for girls in 1855, where she wrote a class essay ...

Approaching the age his dad was when he died at Daytona, a second-generation legend went looking for answers. I went looking, ...