The United States is one of a handful of countries in which private real property owners can hold and own subsurface mineral rights. In a majority of countries, only the government can own and benefit ...

Amid all the excitement over the Haynesville Shale natural gas field, a lot of homeowners in parts of Bossier Parish are finding out they don't own the mineral rights to their property after all. One ...

Red-winged blackbirds chirped and trilled over the noise of clanging pipes. Diesel exhaust scented the breeze that rustled the lilies and irises next to Rebecca Samblanet's front porch. For 10 days, a ...

DENVER — Colorado resident Bill Peltier can trace his roots in the Centennial State back four generations, and since the time his great-grandfather arrived in the mid-1800s, the family has relied on ...

DUNLAP, TENN. — When Ed Lewis and some of his neighbors bought property on a scenic Tennessee mountain, they knew they didn't own the mineral rights to the land, but they assumed a coal mining revival ...

LA SALLE — The devastating floods of 2013 sent water from the South Platte River cascading across Chuck and Roni Sylvester’s farm and into their home, creating a high-water mark 17 inches above their ...

EDMOND — Honeyfield has turned out to be a legal minefield. The "walkable" mixed-use, housing-retail-office project is stuck in court because it's planned for an old oil patch. That's not unusual in ...

A company hoping to extract lithium from brine in south Arkansas sent a lease proposal to a state agency that owns land and a ...

Texas law splits land rights into two categories: surface estates and mineral estates. In places where oil and gas activity has been common, this makes sense. The mineral rights to a given amount of ...