Each year, the third Sunday in June is a time to pay homage to fathers and the millions of other men who have stepped into ...

Federal regulators have determined that the operator of a Raleigh County mine with a long history of safety failures caused a ...

But an hour and 37 minutes after their shift began, all but three of the miners were dead or dying in the worst coal mine disaster in Montana history. They were survived by 58 widows and 125 children.

the 22-year-old who lost his father in the disaster. The mine, which had unified the community, would reopen in June, but Bearcreek was never the same. In 1953, the Montana Iron and Coal Co. shut ...

There were few signs in recent months that Core Natural Resources would shut down a southern West Virginia coal mine, leaving ...

Southwest Virginia is the state’s toe, kicking up against West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Timber and coal mining began transforming the region in the late 1800s ...

The heritage listing of the site of Australia's worst coal mining disaster has come as a relief to those who have advocated for it for decades. The NSW government confirmed the listing this month ...

BEIJING — (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people ...

The Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority, said it continued to help develop similar projects across south and north-east Wales and hoped Wales could be at the "forefront" of ...

Safety improvements are one legacy of the disaster, Rush said. The state commission that investigated the explosion made several suggestions, expanding rock-dusting to every part of the mine, to ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia DNR held a public meeting Tuesday evening in regard to the master plan for the Forks of Coal Natural Area in Kanawha County. Residents were able to stop by ...