My dad was a miner, I was good with my hands, had a decent set of O-levels from Matthew Holland Comprehensive School in ...

It features a list of names of men who died in mining accidents in the county dating back to 1875, memorial bricks for other miners and a statue of a miner in the image of Bennett's father. Arthur S.

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Timothy Novotney was a teenager in Hazleton when his friend moved into a house with a steel door in the basement.

Donald Wyman was back at work at his coal-mining job when we visited him in 1994, a year after an oak tree fell on his leg that forced him to amputate it with a pocket knife.

Rusby wrote the song My Young Man about her grandad, a coal miner who died in middle-age from emphysema, and her grandmother, Ivy, who nursed him through the years of illness.

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

LANSFORD, Pa. — Charges have been filed against 43-year-old David Eisenhower, the Lehighton man who allegedly started a standoff with police while he was in a coal mine in Carbon County.

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...

The Department of the Interior Friday announced approval of a mining plan modification for Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana. It authorizes Signal Peak Energy, LLC to mine roughly 22.8 million ...

Rusby wrote the song My Young Man about her grandad, a coal miner who died in middle-age from emphysema, and her grandmother, Ivy, who nursed him through the years of illness.