The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court's decision in a Libby asbestos case, ruling in favor of BNSF Railway.

The ruling is a victory for the Texas-based railway and a blow to plaintiffs in hundreds of other asbestos cases pending in ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality andMontana Natural Resource Damage Program have extended the public comment period and will hold a public meeting on the proposed ...

Asbestos-containing vermiculite from the Grace mine was used as insulation in millions of houses across the U.S. In Libby, contaminated waste from the mine was unwittingly used by many residents as a ...

The future of Libby’s CARD Clinic has never looked more bleak. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office acknowledged Wednesday that it served a writ of execution on the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, ...

The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state's claims for ...

HELENA, Mont. — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. W.R. Grace and Co. and seven senior employees were charged in an indictment released Monday with conspiring for decades to hide the dangers posed by asbestos contamination in a Montana ...