Politicians have long used coal miners as props. Yet federal policies have done little to help them, and some have even made ...

Coal mine explosion on May 1, 1900, was worst in U.S. history at the time. There were stories of survival, heroism. Read more ...

In this edition of One Tank Trips, we are going underground - and back in time - for an up-close look at a coal mine in Carbon County.

Colorado School of Mines students helped excavate the Edgar Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs to build a quantum computing ...

New coal mine safety requirements from the Mine Safety and Health Administration were supposed to take effect this month ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs.

Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key ...

The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable ...

St. Clair County is transferring ownership of St. Ellen Mine Park to O’Fallon and giving the city a $400,000 grant for ...

The Liberals and the Nationals are both eyeing off working class seats that were once unquestionably Labor territory, but has ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry.

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...