Federal authorities have upped the amount of cocaine they say they've seized from a ship at the Philadelphia port to more than 35,000 pounds, or 15,876 kilograms.

ELKO, Nev. (AP) - Barrick Gold Corp., the largest gold mining company in the world, has started testing autonomous hauling trucks in a partnership with a neighboring mine in northeast Nevada and a Utah-based company that's using new technology to retrofit existing haul fleets.     

A federal investigations report reveals that a double-fatality accident at a mine east of Elko was caused by unenforced policies, lack of communication and ineffective traffic rules.

More than a dozen Nevada mine workers are safe after they spent a rainy night in their trucks when a slide blocked the exit road from the bottom of an open pit gold mine.