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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Wells ran a half-marathon at age 60 and played recreational volleyball until he was 63. At 65 years old, doctors diagnosed him with mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive lung cancer linked to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an ...

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