The roughly 200-acre hillside quarry in Makakilo owned by Grace Pacific LLC now has a permit to operate until 2047. Community members have raised concerns about what the excavated hillside would look ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — As one of three operational quarries on Oahu, the Makakilo Quarry has provided Hawaii with stone, asphalt, and other construction materials for decades. Now the owners of the quarry ...

The mineral rights of the San Rafael Rock Quarry have been purchased by CRH, an international group of building materials businesses based in Dublin, Ireland. CRH bought the rights from the Dutra ...

A Luzerne County judge has rejected a plan to develop a solid-waste transfer station on mine-scarred land in Avoca that is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Following a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Nashville Fire Department personnel were able to rescue a base jumper who was trapped almost 300 feet from the top of a rock quarry ledge. The fire department had to use ...

MANAGERS AND OSHA. THE SOUND OF CRACKING ROCK ECHOED FROM THE QUARRY LATE INTO THE NIGHT. CREWS TRYING TO BREAK UP AND LIFT THE HEAVY BOULDERS THAT CRUSHED AN EXCAVATOR, TRAPPING THE WORKER INSIDE.