It doesn’t take much for a century-old mine shaft to cave in around you. Or for the mercury, lead or arsenic leftovers to leech into the Silver State’s already strained groundwater supply. That’s why, ...

NEVADA COUNTY, Calif — A man is on the road to recovery after falling into an abandoned mine shaft in Nevada County. Late ...

IT’S ACTING AGGRESSIVELY. AND WE’RE GETTING SOME NEW VIDEO OUT OF NEVADA COUNTY TONIGHT WHERE CREWS RUSHED IN TO RESCUE A TEEN AND TWO DOGS, ALL STUCK IN A MINESHAFT. YEAH, THIS WAS AROUND SIX LAST ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...

Picture a town that exploded from nothing to thousands of people in just three years, only to vanish like a desert mirage. Rhyolite, Nevada, was that place, a Wild West boomtown born from gold fever ...