PICHER, Oklahoma (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the ...

The town of Picher, Ok. sits nestled between mountains of chat ... During the summer months, kids flock to this sinkhole filled with water north of Treece, Kan., and rope swing off the tree ...

Picher, Oklahoma, is emblematic of what happens when a mining boomtown goes bust. When the minerals were exhausted, companies left or went bankrupt. Slab, former home of Gloria and Tom Workman.

Years of mining have left the ground unstable, creating collapsing mines and sporadic sinkholes ... the Quapaw Nation was pushed into Northeast Oklahoma and lived within and around this area. At one ...

Stuart and Tonya Junker loved their quiet neighborhood near South Dakota's Black Hills — until the earth began collapsing around them, leaving them wondering if their home could tumble into ...

Malaysian authorities are ramping up search efforts to find the female tourist who fell into a sinkhole a week ago. Vijaya Lakshmi Gali, fell victim to the 26ft crater en route to a local temple ...

It’s just another day in Charlotte with another sinkhole. There have been several sinkholes popping up in Charlotte recently, ...

When Baltimore officials first spotted it in November 2022, the sinkhole in the grass beside Lake Montebello was about the size of a basketball. Officials said the repair would take weeks ...

Increased use of groundwater caused the ground to sink (subsidence) around Konya, Turkey, leading to this sinkhole in 2019. Sudden, large collapse of sinkholes are relatively rare. Sinkholes can ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A woman from India disappeared in Malaysia’s capital Friday when pavement collapsed beneath her and she fell into a sinkhole where she may have been swept away by an ...