From the fringes of southern West Virginia down to Southwest Virginia, special events celebrating the Fourth of July are getting ready for a festive holiday weekend. In the city of Bluefield, there ...

Wyoming's first new coal mine in 50 years is said to be operating soon but it won't rely on the fossil fuel to make money.

The West Virginia Coal Association is praising the passage of the massive budget bill passed by Congress on Thursday, however ...

Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering valuable minerals in the process.

MADISON, W.Va. (WOWK)– As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong tradition of coal mining.

Production at Virginia’s leading underground coal mine has idled in response to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

Four months after McDowell County, West Virginia, was hit with catastrophic flooding, one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still working to recover.

In Wyoming, BLM's Buffalo Field Office proposed an end to federal coal leasing in its area as well. There are a dozen coal mines in BLM's Buffalo region that produced 220 million tons of coal in 2022.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source ...

With the help of laser sensors, drones and a robot dog, workers are preparing to re-enter one of Queensland's largest steelmaking coal mines one year on from an underground fire.

Coal industry officials said more than a thousand miners’ jobs are at risk this summer as demand for West Virginia’s steel-making coal tanks overseas.

Waste rock piles form a terraced landscape at Teck Resources' mothballed Coal Mountain Operations mine southeast of Sparwood, British Columbia. The company owns four active mines to the north.