This once-thriving mining town was mostly abandoned after a coal seam fire ignited beneath it in 1962 and continues to burn ...

The deadly project killed more than 750 workers, the company scrambling to bury the dead before anyone knew they were gone.

Deep beneath the English countryside, a group of miners began what should have been another routine shift. Within hours, an ...

Andrew Little later became a Labour MP and was appointed Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry in 2017. In 2021, he aborted re-entry efforts, falsely claiming it was unsafe and too expensive, ...

"Impeccable filmmaking. Terrific film. Take tissues," says New Zealand filmmaker and documentary expert, Dame Gaylene Preston ...

The film was shot deep inside coal mines to recreate the atmosphere of the real-life Chasnala mining disaster on which it was ...

The deep bond forged by two women who lost loved ones in the Greymouth mine explosion inspired an off-screen friendship ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip ...

Natural sinkholes threaten 20 percent of the U.S., including Pennsylvania, Florida and states across the South ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to open 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, as part of President Donald Trump's aim to bolster the shrinking U.S. coal industry. The policy, ...

In the basement of the library at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus a few miles north of Uniontown, sits one of the largest collection of artifacts of the region’s bituminous coal and ...

President Donald Trump came into office promising to reverse the long decline of coal. Now he’s taking action with a plan to pour money into coal-burning plants and open federal lands to mining. But ...