The Baker County Board of Commissioners might cancel an 8-year-old ordinance that allows people or companies to apply for a ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota’s Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop ...

Emily Cureton Cook / OPB Negotiations over how a mining company will monitor itself amid accusations of groundwater pollution in Crook County are expected to come to a head this week. Friday is the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Dakota Gold, a mining corporation, has announced to investors that their initial assessment on the Richmond Hill Gold Project near Spearfish Canyon has the potential to net ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A Jackson County sheriff's spokeswoman says authorities are working to identify human remains found in southern Oregon by a man mining for gold. Spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says ...