RORO VILLAGE, India (AP) — Asbestos waste spills in a gray gash down the flank of a lush green hill above tribal villages in eastern India. Three decades after the mines were abandoned, nothi… ...

San Diego firefighters, with assistance from the National City and Coronado Fire Departments, spent an hour battling a fire in an abandoned building in the Mountain View neighborhood Sunday night.

Swaths of Pennsylvania and many other states are honeycombed with old, unstable mines that can cause the earth to suddenly give way and threaten people and property. That’s what searchers in ...

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. (AP) — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that ...

“I’m quite individualistic. I became an entrepreneur more by the lack of other avenues,” says Ho Kwon Ping, the founder and executive chairman of Banyan Group.

Jason Willis, mine restoration project manager with Trout Unlimited, is working to rehabilitate an abandoned mine site to improve water quality for nearby wetlands and Mosquito Creek near Alma ...

While many abandoned mines in New Jersey are filled in, state law requires only fencing around the locations. That was not an option for the now-repaired I-80 sinkhole, which happened in Wharton ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – An abandoned car wash in San Diego’s Corridor neighborhood was destroyed by a fire early Wednesday morning. San Diego Fire-Rescue crews were dispatched to 3419 University ...

Abandoned mines dot the Western landscape, polluting the region’s streams with acid mine drainage and connecting the Western past to the Western present and future in very real and ongoing ways. Since ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the California Division of Highways seized 66 acres of property in Southcrest to build Highway 252. It would have been an east-west connector between I-5 and I-805.

Chelsea Grimm of San Diego had stopped to camp in Arizona on a planned cross-country drive. Her car was found abandoned Oct. 5, authorities said.