The National Weather Service in nearby Rapid City, South Dakota, said Saturday morning there was widespread lightning across northeastern Wyoming ... hit the coal mining facility. The Gillette ...

where Gillette is located, produces more than 80 percent of Wyoming’s coal. Wyoming uses western mining — not the underground maze you might imagine when you think of a coal mine ...

GILLETTE, Wyoming— -- Ever since November ... For most of the last century, coal mining has been portrayed in popular culture as men toiling far underground and relying on canaries for ...

GILLETTE – Two of the 10 largest coal mines in the country shut down Monday ... That’s enough to power the entire state of Wyoming, plus roughly 100,000 additional households.

How do the good people of Gillette, Wyoming, feel about that ... just changing the way we use fossil fuels. And, you know, coal mining has become more automated. And at the same time, natural ...

GILLETTE, Wyo.—For generations, coal has been good to this bustling town of 32,000, where local mines have long offered ... over the past several years, Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, a ...

And Wyoming’s leaders know that’s a problem. Forty-two percent of the domestic coal supply is mined in the state, much of it from large mines around Gillette. In recent years, the coal ...

GILLETTE — Nearly two years to the day ... Fifteen years ago, coal mines like Wyoming’s Black Thunder were fueling about half of the electricity use in the country. That figure fell to around ...

For the people of Gillette, dropping coal… Nation’s largest coal mining company files for bankruptcy protection Peabody Energy, the country's largest coal company, filed for Chapter 11 ...

Third-generation coal miner Kent Parrish was blown away the first time he saw a Wyoming coal mine. “75 to 100-foot coal seams!” he said, peering down in the huge black pit of the Eagle Butte coal mine ...

GILLETTE—Gov. Mark Gordon traveled to the heart of Wyoming’s coal country ... Clary, a former mine manager for the Wyodak coal mine east of town who is running for a seat on the Gillette ...

GILLETTE – Two of the 10 largest coal mines in the country shut down Monday ... That’s enough to power the entire state of Wyoming, plus roughly 100,000 additional households.