The Trump administration signaled last week it intends to approve a land transfer that will allow a foreign company to mine a ...

TUCSON— Two years after a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Forest Service this week released the appraisals for the proposed Oak Flat land exchange and mine project in Arizona.

The Trump administration plans to move ahead with a land swap that would enable work to start on a huge copper mine at Oak ...

Eventually, the ground would subside, leaving behind a crater about 1,000 feet deep and nearly 2 miles across where Oak Flat ...

The U.S. government said it will move to sell of the copper-rich Arizona site despite a possible Supreme Court intervention.

The U.S. Forest Service is providing notice that it plans to reissue a final environmental review and draft decision on a contested transfer of land in Arizona that would clear the way for a massive ...

A decades-long effort to open a portion of the Tonto National Forest to copper mining took a significant step forward on ...

"the place where the Emory oak grows," is at the heart of a dispute over what should happen to the land. In December 2014, Congress authorized the U.S. Forest Service to trade the 2,200-acre site ...

The federal agency was under court order to provide two months’ notice before reissuing the documents related to the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land — known as Oak Flat — to ...