Silver Bow Mining hopes to conduct mining exploration near Walkerville
Montana DEQ has released a draft environmental assessment for the project
Duncan Adams
Sister Mary Jo McDonald: 'The Fighting Nun' reflects on a life battling for Butte's underdogs
'What are they going to do to a nun?'
'Diggings East' Superfund work slated to begin in August
The Diggings East site in Butte contains just about everything except the kitchen sink, and that’s likely in the mix too.
Along with mine tailings, contaminated soils, municipal wastes, timbers, household wastes, construction debris and more.
Josh Bryson, Atlantic Richfield’s project manager in Butte, said the 30-acre
After years of delay, EPA promises Butte community that a new lead action level is coming
EPA’s regional administrator spoke Tuesday night at Montana Technological University and said something locals have verbalized for years.
“We all know that the 1,200 number, that’s not acceptable, that it needs to come down, and that’s going to by a pretty significant extent,” said Cyrus Western,
Walkerville couple has spirited plans for historic Salvation Army building
The vigorous and varied sinning in Uptown Butte summoned The Salvation Army to the Mining City in 1888.
The charitable organization came to rambunctious Butte to fight for the lost souls of men and women. History suggests some subset of thieves, prostitutes, drunkards and gamblers found a path out of
Repo plan: Berkeley Pit gets the snub, for now, to accepting Superfund wastes
Josh Bryson of Atlantic Richfield said in March 2024 that preliminary analysis of the Berkeley Pit suggested the contaminated lake was shaping up as a preferred option to accept Superfund wastes from sites in the Silver Bow Creek Corridor.
Not anymore. At least not for now.
“The need for continued
Windstorm hammers Butte: Forecasters say worst is over; power outages, damage persists
Updated at 6:15 p.m.
Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff Ed Lester said the “High Wind Warning” for the area remains in effect until 8 p.m. Wednesday.
He said the Emergency Travel Advisory for the City of Butte will be rescinded at 9 p.m. Wednesday, “at which time