Former coal communities face higher death rates from suicide, drugs and alcohol revealing lasting effects of industrial decline.

At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming pond shrouded in overgrowth and surrounded by metal pipes and rusted ...

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(CNN) — Here is a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in ...

Under the Biden Administration, federal regulators had forced the state toward stricter regulation of methane emissions.

Residents question plans to extend the life of a coal mine for 110 years when the power plant it supplies is set to close in ...

TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has identified an unusual seismic event in west Alabama, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane explosion ripped through the mine, killing 11 ...

The 2.2 event was recorded at 5:40 a.m. Friday, less than 10 miles west of Rock Creek.

Virginia’s U.S. senators have expressed concern to federal mine safety regulators over their response to a Nicholas County mine incident that prompted an emergency search and rescue mission that ...