Before the United States was a country, New Jersey was mine country. State officials are aware of about 2,700 sites where mining or prospecting took place in the Garden State. The state Department of ...

Abandoned and orphaned oil wells in West Texas are causing costly environmental hazards like sinkholes and leaks, prompting ...

In the American-Statesman archives we found the previous story on the treasures buried beneath Zilker Park in Austin ...

The measure, from an East Texas Republican, would fund new research on the aquifers that supply half of the state’s water.

Three sinkholes have appeared on the section of Route 80 that opened in 1960. Questions surround the contractor, but is there more to it?

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Gov. Phil Murphy and Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-7, visited the sinkholes on Route 80 ...

The collapse of an abandoned mineshaft beneath Route 80 in Morris County on December 26 highlights the risk posed by New ...

Both eastbound and westbound lanes of New Jersey's Route 80 near Exit 34 will be closed until further notice as crews work to ...

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - The sinkhole on Single Tree Way has been repaired. Back in January, the sinkhole opened up while crews were working on repairs on Single Tree Way. The ground collapse ...

After more than a year of uncertainty, Battleship Texas will now be moored at Pier 15 in Galveston. The decision to move the USS Texas — the last remaining World War I dreadnought battleship ...

Its president Prof Dr Jeffrey Chiang Choong Luin said observations from Google Maps indicate the location of the sinkhole is about 24m from the Klang River. He said that based on visual evidence ...