Abandoned mine shafts from the 1800s riddle the western half of North Carolina, and the U.S. Forest Service has taken action to block off one of the most notorious of them. Known as the “sinkhole,” ...

Aging mines and heavy rain make collapses more likely and there have been several in recent months.

A sinkhole roughly the depth and width of a four-story building on a busy stretch of Interstate 80 in Wharton was caused by the collapse of an abandoned mineshaft, forcing workers to undergo sizeable ...

Known as the “sinkhole,” the 6-foot wide, 30-foot-deep mine shaft is conspicuously located on a popular biking trail in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. U.S. Forest Service photo Abandoned ...