Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open.

SALT LAKE CITY — A new coal mine could be moving into a small town in Carbon County. People who live in and visit Scofield are speaking out as the deadline to weigh in is less than a week away.

In Emery County ... and some young people hope that coal mining continues. “I think there’s a bright future in it,” said Dillion Grimmett, a 31-year-old coal miner who works at Gentry.

Coal mining shafts abandoned more than a century ... conduct drilling and grouting to fill sub-surface voids left by old coal mines. The area was an active coal mine from 1854 to 1938.

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HANCOCK COUNTY, WV — The new director of the Hancock County Health Department was introduced to the Hancock County Commission on Thursday. Ami Arneault was named the new health director ...

also in Marion County. An excavator pours dirt into a dump truck Thursday while work progresses on clearing out land at an old coal mining site near Pella. A state program to reclaim abandoned ...

It turns out they’ve also been stomping on a smoldering, 100-year-old ... county investigators wrote it was unlikely the coal seam was the fire’s cause, but sparks from the underground mine ...

Here are the general election results for November 5, 2024 in Hancock County, West Virginia Polls open at 6:30 am and polls close at 7:30 pm on Tuesday. Results will come in after 7:30 pm.

Last week, the Baltimore County Council approved a plan to use $10 million in state funds to purchase 85 acres on the former C.P. Crane coal plant site in Bowleys Quarters from North Carolina ...