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 ...

On the first Saturday of each December, a small miracle occurs in the extreme northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher. Around 8:00 a.m., the first vehicles start arriving in the parking lot of an ...

A town that’s been all but erased comes back to life every December when the Picher-Cardin All-School Reunion Committee hosts a Christmas Parade. It’s held the first Saturday of December each year, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, on the Quapaw reservation, is home to one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States. Tar Creek, which feeds into the Neosho River then on to Grand Lake, runs ...

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 ...