More than a century of resource extraction and environmental destruction along the San Joaquin River near Fresno could’ve been halted. Instead, the Fresno County Planning Commission blinked. Rather ...

MILWAUKEE — A provision attached to the statewide shared revenue deal will limit local governments’ regulation of quarry operations, including when a city or town wants to limit when quarries extract ...

For about an hour Sept 24, frustrated residents aired a myriad of grievances over summertime blasting on the Swampscott quarry. Before the Swampscott Board of Selectmen, neighbors to the Danvers Road ...

Residents have no warning before blasts at the rock quarry. “You can hear it, it shakes, and they don’t notify people,” one said. GRANITE FALLS — A gravel mine that has operated for almost 25 years in ...

PETER AND MARIA, THE BLASTING COMPANY, SAYING THAT THOSE ROCKS CAME FROM HERE. THOUGH THE OWNERS OF THE QUARRY ITSELF SAYING THAT THEY DON’T HAVE A FIRM CONCLUSION ON THAT YET. BUT RESIDENTS AROUND ...

In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

SWAMPSCOTT - The town has given Aggregate Industries permission to resume blasting in the Swampscott section of its quarry. But the subcontractor in charge must enhance safety measures to avoid ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake experts, now agree that two things happened November 4th, a routine quarry blast that was not very noticeable, followed seconds later by an earthquake very ...