Sinkholes are not uncommon in Giles County, but a recent series of them have caused significant issues, including the ...

A sinkhole closed Norcross Road in Giles County. VDOT says residents in the area have other routes out. Their crews are ...

Sinkholes are common in Florida because of its limestone bedrock. Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Pennsylvania are prone to sinkholes as well, also because of their bedrock.

In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of sinkholes every year.

Sinkholes are not always associated with mining. In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of ...

In Western North Carolina, and other areas with notably no limestone, sinkholes are mainly the result of human intervention – construction fill, bad plumbing, and choices made by developers and ...

Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call karst terrain, which involves types of rock including limestone below the land surface that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating ...

Authorities fear a woman in western Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole — a phenomenon likely caused by mine subsidence. Search and ...

In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of sinkholes every year.

Authorities fear a woman in western Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole — a phenomenon likely caused by mine subsidence.