20, 1894: Eight men were killed in a coal mine disaster near Colliers, Brooke County ... Burdette, an outstanding ...

Thirteen when she finally joined her parents in the U.S., Mulrooney was unimpressed by life in the coal town of Archbald ... which made an exception for her mining achievements and civic service. In ...

John “Jim” Yadamec was a longtime newspaper editor, sports editor and outdoors columnist for three newspapers who loved being ...

Carol Bauer, president of the Virginia Education Association, said while the organization remains hopeful, some of the ...

Their population climbed from about 50 to near 800, but advocates say climate change threatens this conservation success ...

The Supreme Court has urged the Indian government to make a final decision regarding the calculation of royalty on minerals.

Mining companies told the top court that royalty which has already been paid in the previous month is again being factored in ...

The bench refused to hold the law to be wrong, respecting the government’s discretion to take economic policy decisions.

Bishop was born in Caretta, West Virginia, deep in the heart of coal mining country. He left home at 18 after the mining jobs dried up and joined the Army in 1957. After basic training, he was sent to ...

Payne fell last month from his room's balcony on the third floor of his hotel in an upscale neighborhood of Argentina's ...

Along with Michigan and Wisconsin, Pennsylvania forms part of the “rust belt” where communities have been hammered by job losses as heavy industries such as steel and coal-mining have closed down.