For decades, Libby residents have lived with the deadly aftermath of asbestos exposure from a closed vermiculite mine. It ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...

Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill. On a recent Monday in October, walking through the forests of ...

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FILE - Respiratory therapist Vernon Johnson, left, conducts a pulmonary test at the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Libby, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) ...

A panel of federal judges on Tuesday appeared skeptical of arguments from lawyers for two deceased plaintiffs that railroad ...

The cleanup of a northwest Montana community where health professionals say hundreds of people have been killed by asbestos exposure entered a new phase Thursday as officials turn their focus to ...

HELENA, Mont. -- Montana Gov. Judy Martz Thursday endorsed listing Libby as a federal Superfund cleanup site to deal with asbestos contamination linked to 200 deaths in the northwestern Montana mining ...

The Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, closed in May after a court judgment. The clinic's federal funding is also threatened.... Near old Montana mine, special clinic for ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...