TERRELL (AP) — Authorities say two men drowned while trying to rescue others after a boat capsized in a water-filled quarry in North Texas. Kaufman County sheriff's spokeswoman Jolie Stewart says ...

Global building materials company Cemex, headquartered in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico, has announced the completion of a new water recycling system at the Cemex Balcones Quarry near New Braunfels, ...

Since the days when Franciscan priests surveyed sites for the first mission walls, limestone has defined the color and texture of San Antonio. Limestone walls protected the early settlers, and the ...

The Texas Supreme Court has denied a petition from opponents of a proposed quarry project in Comal County, the latest blow to environmentalists who have been fighting the rock-crushing operation for ...

More than a dozen Austin-area families say a Texas limestone quarry has blanketed their neighborhood in harmful dust, nonstop noise, and house-shaking vibrations. Their lawsuit, filed in June 2023, ...

Quarries have proliferated in recent years in the Texas Hill Country – so much so that a stretch of land in Comal County has come to be known as "quarry row." Residents living near these facilities ...

No one wants to look at the chalky plumes of dust that could make neighbors sick, or at the large, barren pits that scar the landscape when rock crushing and mining operations cease. But that’s no ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — Mammoths roamed across North Texas tens of thousands of years ago, and the head of one of them will soon be on display, as a mammoth skull was uncovered in Ellis County last week ...

ON THE EASTERN SLOPE OF the Franklin Mountains, the range that rises in the heart of El Paso, is an enormous, jagged, ocher-and-sand-colored scar known as the McKelligon Canyon Quarry. It is the ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — Mammoths roamed across North Texas tens of thousands of years ago, and the head of one of them will soon be on display, as a mammoth skull was uncovered in Ellis County last week ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — Mammoths roamed across North Texas tens of thousands of years ago, and the head of one of them will soon be on display, as a mammoth skull was uncovered in Ellis County last week ...