Australia is a major coal producing country, and its second biggest state for the fuel, New South Wales, has banned new coal ...

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, ...

President Donald Trump has been adamant in voicing support for coal mining. From his first campaign, he has talked a lot about the importance of the industry as a domestic energy source. There’s also ...

Over the past few years, local author J.A. Stein has published novels set in medieval times and contemporary Schuylkill ...

The artwork, which depicts life in pit communities, is on show for the next year in Wakefield.

Brilliant, Alabama revives its coal mining legacy with CoalFest, offering free music, history exhibits, and family fun on May ...

Residents question plans to extend the life of a coal mine for 110 years when the power plant it supplies is set to close in ...

Former coal communities face higher death rates from suicide, drugs and alcohol revealing lasting effects of industrial decline.

On June 12th, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced its intentions to roll back federal guidelines to investigate reports of potential ...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Coal operators and those in the mining industry in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky will converge on Bluefield this week for the 25th Bi-Annual Bluefield Coal and Mining Show.