Using four massive pulleys to move cages up and down, it transported miners and coal-laden trams. (Mainichi/Taichi Kaizuka)=Click/tap photo for more images. The former Sumitomo Akabira Coal Mine ...

Arthur Scargill, the NUM President, was a man ready to wage a fierce and bitter campaign to protect his members' jobs ...

Plug Power shares surged for a second straight session on new tax credit rules for clean hydrogen production. Last week, the Treasury Department issued the final rules for the tax credits spelled out ...

Rupert Holmes wrote "Timothy," a tale of trapped miners who eat their friend, for Seventies rock band the Buoys. Somehow it became a Billboard hit ...

Hamstead Colliery was still producing coal in 1955 only closing down 10 years later in 1965. Little remains today of the coal ...

A mine just reopened in eastern Utah, but the industry has changed. In Emery County, for example, Wolverine’s Fossil Rock ...

From Timothée Chalamet in "A Complete Unknown" to Angelina Jolie in "Maria," these actors have filled the big boots (and ...

HCN has covered the lands, wildlife and communities of the Western U.S. for more than 50 years. Get to know the West better by signing up to receive HCN’s on-the-ground reporting and investigations in ...

Jocelyn Wildenstein should have been a cautionary tale of the dangers of going too far in the quest for perfection. But new ...

With the state’s glaciers retreating at alarming rates, there is no time like now to trek, climb, paddle and fly to see them ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

After singing the soundtrack for the 1980 Loretta Lynn film 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Sissy Spacek released her debut 'Hangin’ Up My Heart.' ...