The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Oxford American report on Picher, Oklahoma's annual Christmas parade, reviving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, abandoned buildings line Main Steet in Picher, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) A ...

PICHER, Okla. — Despite being about 1,500 miles away, theater audiences in New York City are learning about the history and residents of a former mining town in Northeast Oklahoma through a musical ...

PICHER, Oklahoma -- Almost no one lives in Picher, Oklahoma, anymore. The federal government bought out most of the residents as the entire community is contaminated from former mining operations ...

Every once in a while, an assignment hits me on an emotional level. And I'm not talking about the obvious ones, like photographing the scene of a tornado or fire. I'm talking about the unexpected ...

Oklahoma's Department of Environmental Quality wants to make it illegal for young children to live in some parts of Picher, Oklahoma. City officials are rejecting the suggestion. The former lead and ...

A once-thriving Oklahoma town is now known as one of America's "most toxic ghost towns." The town structures that weren't demolished, destroyed by fire or a tornado, or collapsed are abandoned and ...