Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of the deadliest mine disaster in more than half a century at the Upper Big Branch mine. Appalachia Mid-South Newsroom's Justin Hicks recently interviewed survivor ...

A gas leak at a coal mine in northern Iran killed seven workers, three of whom were Afghanis, state media said Tuesday ...

Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, calls a recommendation by the Trump administration to close three dozen ...

Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of one of the deadliest mining disasters in West Virginia history.On April 5, 2010, 29 ...

Two disasters followed a decade later in Ferndale ... And had you told those working down the pit in 1893 that the last deep coal mine in Britain would close little more than a hundred years ...

OpEd: Kentucky residents who care about the welfare of working miners should ask Congressman Hal Rogers what he plans to do to keep regional MSHA offices open, and to keep miners safe.

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement released its decision on leasing federal coal tracts near the ... fire and more potent natural disasters. However, the agency also ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...

Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people when coal waste slid down the side of a mountain into a ...

In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

‘Recipe for disaster’ Conflicts within the coal industry go back over a century. The West Virginia Mine Wars involved a long-running dispute between coal companies and miners fed up with ...

(AP) — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions ... That includes terminating leases for three dozen offices in the Mine Safety and Health Administration, the agency responsible ...