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 ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

Digging crews resumed work early Thursday in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine. Fewer than a dozen ...

Aug. 5 (UPI) --The Department of the Interior announced Tuesday it has approved a mining plan modification for the Rosebud Mine in Montana. The decision for the 25,000-acre strip mine in Rosebud and ...

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