The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has approved the expansion of an underground coal mine in Westmoreland County. Johnstown-based LCT Energy LP operates the 2,800-acre Rustic ...

It was not unusual in the day for women to tour a coal mine. Indeed, Minnie had been in mines, and was anxious to show one to her friend. Arranging a tour was no problem. Mr. Hiatt, a principal in ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains ...

At 12:05 a.m. on Aug. 11, 62-year-old Leonard Barnes died in the accident that occurred while he was shoveling rock from an above-ground belt conveyor at the underground coal mine in the North ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

Trump’s government efficiency team, run by Elon Musk, made plans earlier this year to terminate the leases of 34 U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration offices in 19 states. The coal ...