President Donald Trump came into office promising to reverse the long decline of coal. Now he’s taking action with a plan to pour money into coal-burning plants and open federal lands to mining. But ...

WEST FRANKFORT — Since its inception in 1941, the Old King Coal Festival has honored the region’s coal miners and their contributions to the community. The deep-rooted celebration kicks off Thursday ...

There's something very old and relentless beneath a quiet Pennsylvania town. It's a coal fire that's burning. And it's still not finished. What happened?

BOULDER COUNTY — Poofs of smoke and coal ash wafted from a 30-foot pit on Marshall Mesa as an excavator the size of a small house scooped dirt and coal out of the ground. The excavator broke chunks of ...

Nanaimo’s buried past has surfaced once again, this time as a sink hole that has forced the closure of Westwood Road to traffic, with work crews shutting off gas and water mains. Bill Sims, city ...

Gerald Lucas first picked up a No. 4 coal shovel in 1972. For the next 45 years, he worked underground. We’re more than a hundred feet under Beckley, West Virginia, when the lights go out. One minute, ...

Miners, their supporters and medical experts rallied in Washington, calling on the Trump administration to enforce black lung ...

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A coal refuse fire in an abandoned mining area in Chesterfield reignited on Monday. A cloud of smoke could be seen rising from an old coal pile in the Winterpock ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published by High Country News. In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough ...

A sinkhole which opened up on a new housing estate following heavy rain in Lancashire this weekend is being investigated by ...

Nagpur: Mining in underground coal blocks of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) and other subsidiaries of Coal India Limited ...