The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin.

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing [email protected] A 200-foot-wide sinkhole is growing at an alarming rate around an abandoned oil well in Texas, according to the family that owns the ...

The most studied subject of all at the Devil’s Sinkhole is the Mexican free-tailed bat, a cherished mammal by farmers in ...

LORENA, Texas (KWTX) - The Lorena Fire Department in Central Texas shared photos of a massive sinkhole on a local road after the area received “anywhere from four to six inches of rain in a shor ...

After the Memorial Day flood of 1981, the City of Austin needed a better way to deal with a forecast of heavy rain and the ...

In 2016, a sinkhole in central Florida caused contaminated wastewater ... The most damage from sinkholes tends to occur in states like Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Florida, which ...

The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. (Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News, Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune ...

A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and later converted to a ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...