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Tailings Dams: Where Mining Waste is Stored Forever
Imagine a big hole in the ground, similar to the one pictured above. Now imagine that pit filled with up to 10 billion tons of mining waste.
July 30, 2012
New Questions about Sheldon Adelson's Casino Operations in Macau
Las Vegas Sands insisted it needed approval from Macau authorities in order to give federal investigators documents that it turns out were in the U.S. all along.
July 27, 2012
Dig Deeper: Mining the Documents
The documents that shed light on the growing battle for fishing rights and mining wealth in southwest Alaska.
July 24, 2012
Living Off the Land in Rural Alaska
Going back centuries, Bristol Bay's backbone has been salmon.
July 24, 2012
Behind the Insatiable Global Demand for Copper
To get a good sense of the potential value of the copper buried below Alaska's Bristol Bay region, consider an unlikely economic indicator: copper thefts.
July 24, 2012
Live Chat Wed. 2 p.m. ET: Inside the Battle for Bristol Bay
Read a transcript of our live chat with the Anchorage Daily News' Lisa Demer, "Alaska Gold" writer, director and producer Ken Levis, co-producer Aaron Ernst and reporter Blaine Harden.
July 24, 2012
Major Reforms Announced for Troubled New Orleans Police Department
The Justice Department and the city of New Orleans today jointly announced sweeping reforms to the New Orleans Police Department, the result of a long-awaited consent decree stemming from investigations into police misconduct in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
July 24, 2012
The News Corp. Phone-Hacking Scandal: A Cheat Sheet
Eight individuals were charged in the scandal today. Here's what you need to know.
July 24, 2012
Treasure Hunt: The Battle Over Alaska's Mega Mine
Inside the fault lines of a growing battle in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, which hosts the world's last, great sockeye salmon fishery -- and mineral deposits worth up to $500 billion.
July 23, 2012
The State of Reform: Dodd-Frank at Two Years Old
The landmark legislation -- which clocks in at more than 2,000 pages -- was meant to rein in a financial system that brought the economy to the brink of collapse in 2008.
July 19, 2012
What Is President Obama's Track Record on HIV/AIDS?
Starting Sunday, more than 20,000 HIV researchers and activists will gather in Washington, D.C. for the first international AIDS conference to take place in the country in 22 years.
July 19, 2012