DENVER—If investors are worried about the potential for production and profit in the Powder River Basin, all they need to do is talk to Anschutz Exploration Corp.’s president and CEO, Joe DeDominic.

“A mile wide, an inch deep, too thin to plow and too thick to drink” is as appropriate a portrayal today as it was when the first inhabitants described southeast Montana’s Powder River. In September ...

The Senate voted Thursday to revive federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, reversing a Biden-era policy and putting the measure on track for President Donald Trump’s signature. According to ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. – The broad high prairie of eastern Wyoming and southern Montana was once the bottom of a shallow sea, a rich subtropical swampland for millions of years. Layers of plants began forming ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont.— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge a massive Powder River Basin coal-mining plan the groups say ignores alternatives to coal, oil and gas leasing ...

The Powder River Basin, stretching across southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, produces more coal than any other region in the United States. It is also home to the single-richest coal reserves in ...

Several cattle graze by Rock Creek, a tributary to the Powder River, near Haines, Ore. Brian Posewitz / Courtesy photo Oregon has measured high levels of fecal bacteria in Baker County’s Powder River ...

When the Belle Ayr mine opened just south of Gillette, Wyo., in 1972, it signaled the beginning of the American coal industry’s westward migration. This week, it became a symbol of coal’s decline.

The Interior Department issued plans Thursday to throttle future coal mining in the nation’s largest coal-producing region. The Bureau of Land Management proposal would end new federal coal leases in ...

Thunder Creek Gas Services, a subsidiary of Meritage Midstream Services, is more than doubling natural gas processing capacity on its supersystem in Wyoming’s Powder River basin with construction of a ...

Where did the phrase "Powder River, Let 'er buck" originate? What exactly does it mean? How did it get associated with Wyoming football? -- Ruth The Powder River runs through north central Wyoming in ...