WESTERLY, R.I. (WPRI) — Alex McColl was at the golf course Thursday afternoon when he suddenly got a strange call from his brother. “He said, ‘You need to come home. A rock went through your roof,'” ...

In a 2018 photo, an overview of the deep 250-foot quarry area at Swenson Granite. It is time-consuming and expensive to move things and people into and out of a 250-foot hole. The difficulty isn’t ...

A Massachusetts-based dredging and construction company pursuing a highly controversial proposal to run a quarry at historic Mount Decatur along the Thames River withdrew its permit application ...

Residents have no warning before blasts at the rock quarry. “You can hear it, it shakes, and they don’t notify people,” one said. GRANITE FALLS — A gravel mine that has operated for almost 25 years in ...

United States Steel Corp.’s decision to restart a blast furnace at the Granite City Works in Illinois won’t likely have an impact on operations at the Mon Valley Works. U.S. Steel announced late ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Steel said on Thursday it has begun the process to restart operations in one of two blast furnaces at Granite City Works, driven by customer demand. "After several months of ...