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.

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 ...

Image credit: Suroj Barman Guwahati: The Assam Police has arrested one more person in connection with the Umrangso coal mine tragedy in Dima Hasao, Assam. The arrested person has been identified as ...

Safety standards can be poor in the coal mining industry, leading to accidents and fatalities in recent years. On Thursday, Pakistani security forces rescued at least eight of 16 mine workers who ...

Two days after at least nine workers got trapped in an illegal coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, the body of one of them, a Nepal national, was recovered by Army divers on Wednesday morning.

The body of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in a remote ... told there are rat holes in the mine,” HPS Kandhari, a commandant in the National Disaster Relief Force, the federal ...