This week on Inside Appalachia, we speak with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Also, ...

A coal mine where an underground fire on Jan. 13, 2025 prompted reported mine worker evacuations had a long history of safety ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Operators of a large coal mine in north central West Virginia have announced plans to extinguish an underground mine fire.

Survivors of the coal mine disaster on the Assam-Meghalaya border recount traumatic encounters, while relatives mourn the loss of their primary earners. An ongoing recovery operation has retrieved ...

Islamabad: Two miners have been killed when a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan‘s restive Balochistan province, the second mining disaster in the area within a week. The tragedy hit on Sunday in the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Local residents gather as rescuers conduct an operation to recover coal mine workers following a methane gas ...

coal mine disasters and worker fatalities occur regularly. In March last year, about 12 miners were killed in a gas explosion at a coalpit in Harnai. In May 2018, two nearby coal mines collapsed ...

West Virginia is home to the greatest number of coal miners in the country—14,014 as of 2023—which is roughly one-third of all U.S. coal miners. The aforementioned 42,600 coal mining jobs made ...

Dozens of locations across West Virginia participated in the second annual Cover WV Day on Thursday, where more than 20 ...

In the worst mining disaster in American history ... In Buffalo Creek, one of the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dams bursts, unleashing 175 million gallons of black wastewater ...