The company that owns Montana's largest mining complex announced Friday that it will be acquired by a South African company for $2.2 billion in a deal that requires U.S. government approval.
Sibanye Gold Limited will buy Littleton, Colorado-based (...)
U.S. officials moved Thursday to strengthen safety rules for the nation's 300,000-mile network of natural gas transmission pipelines in response to numerous fiery accidents, including a 2010 California explosion that killed eight people and injured (...)
U.S. transportation officials rebuked the oil industry Friday for not giving up information regulators say they need to gauge the danger of moving crude by rail, after several accidents highlighted the explosive properties of fuel from the booming (...)
Floyd “Creeky” Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus, his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffling methodically as he works the crowd, igniting surprised giggles and wonder from children that look up to encounter Creekmore's wrinkled eyes (...)
Five years after a cow dubbed the «Unsinkable Molly B» leapt a slaughterhouse gate in the Western United States and swam across a river in an escape that drew international attention, the heifer has again eluded fate, surviving the collapse of the (...)
There was a rescue involving a St. Bernard in Billings, Mont., but this time it was the humans who saved the day.
A 16-month-old St. Bernard named Duke apparently fell through the ice on a golf-course pond after escaping from his yard. He was able (...)
An explosion rocked an Exxon
Mobil refinery early Wednesday, although there were no
injuries reported and no risk to the public, a company
spokeswoman said, according to AP.
A fireball shot into the sky at about 6:18 a.m. at the
refinery in (...)
in-a-generation chance to inject up
to $300 billion a year into the world economy and lift millions
of people out of poverty.
Since they began, Brazil, India and other countries that
rely heavily on agriculture exports have focused on trying (...)
led war in Iraq and months of bickering over the reluctance of European allies to contribute more troops to NATO missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer rejected the idea of setting up an expert panel on the (...)