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

On this day 99 years ago -- May 27, 1925 -- the largest industrial disaster in the history of North Carolina happened near the county line between Chatham and Lee counties, a coal mine explosion that ...

FARMINGTON, WV (WVNS) — Coal mining is deeply ingrained with West Virginia history, which includes various mine disasters ...

The Knox Mine Disaster claimed the lives of 12 miners. Rail cars were dropped into the whirlpool created by the Knox Mine Disaster in an effort to plug the hole. Workers search for survivors of the ...

A miner who was trapped by rising flood waters while assisting others to safety on Saturday remains missing as divers and ...

A miner who'd been missing since the weekend inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine has been found dead, Gov. Patrick ...

The collapse of an 11-story coal mining plant in Martin County left two workers trapped under the rubble as crews worked to free them Wednesday. One of the workers has since been confirmed dead. But ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

A civic group is leading the effort, seeking to honour the victims and provide closure for their families Eighty-three years after a devastating flood in the Chosei coal mine in southern Japan claimed ...

PLYMOUTH – As most people get ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day, a local man feels another observance should be noted today. Stephen Kondrad, 55, who grew up in Plymouth, moved out of the ...

A tragedy in a coal mine in the northeastern Indian state of Assam has turned the spotlight once again on the illegal practice of rat-hole mining, which thrives in the region despite a ban by the ...

Local, state and federal agencies are searching for a missing coal miner who became trapped inside a flooded mine on Saturday ...