According to the bureau of labor statistics coal mining remains among the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. Coal mining has a ...

Despite the decline in coal production in Kentucky, the state remains heavily dependent on coal to generate electricity. In ...

Eastern Kentucky power company says long-term investments in deteriorating plant are best for customers, despite ongoing rate ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky First Federal Bancorp (KFFB) on Thursday reported net income of $344,000 in its fiscal first quarter. The Hazard, Kentucky-based company said it had ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) has reopened two previously closed mines, Gopinathpur and Chinakuri, under the Mine Developer and Operator (MDO) revenue-sharing model. This strategic move aims to revive ...

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to “reinvigorate” American coal, the industry isn’t gaining much steam. The Department of Interior offered up thousands of acres for coal mining on public ...

(AP) - Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.

A West Virginia coal miner was found dead inside a flooded mine on Thursday morning after a desperate five-day search, officials said. Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old Elkview native, died in Rolling ...

TWENTY MILE CREEK, W. Va (WDTV/Gray News) – Dive teams in West Virginia searched a mine that had flooded Sunday after a miner was reported missing, according to the state’s governor. Gov. Patrick ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...