PICHER, Okla. -- Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars since work began to clean up this former lead and zinc mining boomtown, progress is still being measured in inches or feet.

PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the ...

More than 40 years after the EPA deemed it a Superfund site, cleanup in the Tar Creek area in Ottawa County is seeing ...

Into the Shadows Picher, Oklahoma: America’s Most Toxic Ghost Town Posted: February 21, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 Could an entire town be wiped off the map by pollution? That’s ...

In early 2006, a federal study determined that areas of Picher and the surrounding communities of Cardin and Hockerville in Oklahoma were at risk of caving in. The area is honeycombed with ...

PICHER, Okla. — Despite being about 1,500 miles away, theater audiences in New York City are learning about the history and residents of a former mining town in Northeast Oklahoma through a ...

PICHER, Okla. — The recent search for Lauria ... Anyone with information about Lauria or Ashley is encouraged to call the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation hotline at (800) 522-8017.

Terrifying and thrilling in equal measure, the debut album from the Oklahoma City sludge-metal band is a vivid rendering of the towering piles of poison littering America’s psychic landscape.

PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the ...

May is a big month in Oklahoma for severe weather, and many Oklahomans rely on tornado sirens to give a warning. One neighborhood has been left in silence after the nearest tornado siren was damaged.