For decades, Libby residents have lived with the deadly aftermath of asbestos exposure from a closed vermiculite mine. It ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...

Oct. 7—Montanore Minerals' Libby Mine exploration project is a go after Kootenai National Forest officials signed off on it last week. The decision was lauded by Montana's congressional delegation, ...

A judge ruled Saturday that a health clinic in Montana must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims. The Center for Asbestos ...

The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state's claims for ...

LIBBY, Mont. — Paul Resch remembers playing baseball as a kid on a field constructed from asbestos-tainted vermiculite, mere yards from railroad tracks where trains kicked up clouds of dust as they ...

The US Forest Service has issued the final decision notice and finding of no significant impact for NYSE-listed Hecla Mining ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — On Wednesday, the public is invited to enjoy a discussion on the asbestos public health emergency in Libby, and view a documentary on how the community came together to establish the ...

Missoula, Mont. — A federal jury ruled Wednesday that a health clinic in a Montana town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure submitted 337 false asbestos claims that made patients ...

Hecla Mining Company ( NYSE:HL) today announced that the U.S. Forest Service has issued the final decision notice and finding of no significant impact for the Company's 100% owned copper-silver Libby ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...