The Office of Personnel Management handles retirement paperwork for the entire federal government out of an old limestone ...

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The Aykhal diamond mine, which sits the near the remote Aykhal settlement in Sakha Republic in Siberia, is run by Russia's ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other ...

Indigenous groups in Peru stopped blocking access to Glencore's Antapaccay copper mine in Peru, after closing an agreement with government officials, a local community leader said on Monday.

Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, ...

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers. That’s drawing rebukes from ...

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty, he ...

A growing number of countries bordering Russia are abandoning a long-standing treaty banning the use of land mines, as fears ...

PHNOM PENH, April 6, (Xinhua): A mine-sniffing rat has earned a Guinness World Records title for sniffing more than 100 ...

Five-year-old Ronin has been named the most successful Mine Detection Rat (MDR) in the organisation's history. "His ...