One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine ...

These are the real heroes we should look up to. As a West Virginia native, I grew up around coal mining. I still remember when my grandparents had a coal house in their garage, and seeing my grandpa ...

The search for a missing coal miner continues after a section of the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia was compromised when a wall collapsed.

Rescue crews in West Virginia made progress in clearing a flooded coal mine amid a desperate search for a worker who's been ...

Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five ...

Rescue crews located the body of a missing miner in Nicholas County this morning. A two-man team found the body of foreman ...

This story was originally published by AP News. Lisa Emery loves to talk about her “boys.” With each word, the respiratory ...

Deep in the mountains, explorers discovered a rusted steel door leading to a long-forgotten coal mine. Inside, the tunnels ...

MANILA — Five people died and four others are believed to have also been killed when part of a coal mine collapsed on a remote central Philippine island on Friday, the provincial governor said. The ...

On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South ...

Rescuers resume the search for six Utah coal miners trapped underground. Aug. 7, 2007 — -- Even if they're still alive, the six miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground wouldn't have heard the boss ...