In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, coal miners worked in dim light, fueled at first by candles affixed to their heads, and later by whale’s oil lamps. Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a ...

The president’s voters in West Virginia like his championing of the industry yet worry about possible curbs in mine ...

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

This 2014 photo provided by researchers shows a set of wooden hunting spears estimated to be about 200,000 years old ...

HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, ...

State inspectors find site abandoned, raising concerns about pollution from unplugged wells across Appalachia.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an ...

LaHood’s bill would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to authorize states and nongovernmental ...

A 100-year-old painting by Lawren Harris depicting miners' houses in Glace Bay, N.S., evokes memories of the killing of one ...

Earlier this year the Library of Congress added the recordings of Nimrod Workman to the National Recording Registry, which seeks out “audio ...

WEST FRANKFORT — Since its inception in 1941, the Old King Coal Festival has honored the region’s coal miners and their contributions to the community. The deep-rooted celebration kicks off ...