The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors gave its unanimous blessing Tuesday to a mining operation that will extract up to 350,000 tons of gravel a year from a 6.5 mile stretch of the Russian River. The ...

DETROIT LAKES — Matt Hedstrom was an American Family insurance agent in Detroit Lakes for many years before his retirement, and he got along with just about everybody. So it’s been a shock to his ...

LANSING — A not-in-my-backyard fight over opening new mines to source aggregates for Michigan road and bridge projects is back before lawmakers, with a coalition of industry groups and labor unions ...

SHARON TWP., MI — A sand and gravel mining operation in rural western Washtenaw County needs to expand to keep up with demand for materials used in roadwork and other building projects, company ...

GRAFTON — A man working at a local gravel business died Saturday after a piece of equipment hit him, State Police said. Troopers were called to R.J. Valente Gravel on State Route 2 at 8:13 a.m. to ...

Mike Trudeau was getting ready to move into a new house overlooking a spring-fed lake in Lenawee County last fall when he received a public notice about plans to turn the farm next door into a gravel ...

Don Minick remembers getting up at 3:30 a.m. on summer mornings to drive to his job in Sacramento, and hearing noise from a gravel operation a mile away from his Red Dog Road home. “I could hear their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SILVERTHORNE — City Market grocery worker Oumar Ba breathed deep in Colorado’s Blue River Valley between wilderness mountains, remembering the beauty of his ...