PICHER, Okla. -- Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars since work began to clean up this former lead and zinc mining boomtown, progress is still being measured in inches or feet.

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 ...

Picher, Okla. — A track hoe sidled up to the modest yellow brick church, paused for a moment to position itself, then drove its teeth into the roof with brutal efficiency.

Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste.

PICHER, Okla. – Picher, Oklahoma may be the biggest environmental disaster you’ve never heard of, KFSM reports. What was once a boom town is now considered one of the most toxic cities in America.

By Wally Kennedy [email protected] PICHER, Okla. — If the trend continues, the abandoned mining town of Picher might have a future in film. Picher will be featured in tonight’s episode ...

PICHER, Okla. — The search for two Welch girls continued Friday as crews worked on another digging operation in Picher. Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman were kidnapped and killed in December 1999 ...

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, ...