As of Friday morning, the fire had scorched 150 acres and was 50% contained. An update was expected later Friday.

The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits ...

Anyone who has lived near a strip or mountaintop removal mine knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has lived near a tipple for the sorting, washing and loading of coal on trains ...

"Coal Tipple" is a black-and-white photograph that exemplifies the ... referring to disappearing architectural relics such as coal mines, steel mills, water towers, grain silos, and gas tanks. “I ...

How bad was it? An 80-foot-tall tipple (a structure used to load mined coal into railcars) was knocked over at Peabody Mine 18. Farmers were killed in their fields. Entire families were swept away ...

How bad was it? An 80-foot-tall tipple (a structure used to load mined coal into railcars) was knocked over at Peabody Mine 18. Farmers were killed in their fields. Entire families were swept away ...

is a great place to learn about the folks who lived and worked the mines. But unlike the coal camps I saw as a child, which were dirty, class oriented, and impoverished, Blue Heron is clean and well ...

Winter is rarely a bed of roses, and 1925 had been a particularly rough one. A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria ...

Winter is rarely a bed of roses, and 1925 had been a particularly rough one. A late January blizzard had dumped up to 4 feet of snow in some parts of the Northeast. In Alaska, a diphtheria ...