Construction crews are assembling a field demonstration plant that will process up to 10 tons of coal per day into materials for roads, buildings, ...

Robots and AI are automating Wyoming’s oil rigs for safer drilling, while coal plants are being upgraded with “robot bubble ...

The two-hour bus tour of the Eagle Butte mine north of Gillette is sponsored by the county visitor's bureau. In between photo-ops with giant haul truck tires and a retired shovel bucket, Wilkerson ...

FILE - A dump truck hauls coal at the Eagle Butte Mine, now owned by Eagle Specialty Materials, LLC, near Gillette, Wyo., March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File ...

DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S.

FILE - Energy Secretary Chris Wright listens during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Capitol Hill, June 18, 2025, in Washington ...

This Sept. 5 photo shows a poster urging locals to stay strong amid hardship in a Gillette storefront. The shutdown of Blackjewel LLC's Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Wyoming on July 1 added more ...

On a cool morning in late February, Mark Fix was up before the sun to watch the Tongue River on his ranch in southeast Montana. He was concerned that a breaching ice dam could put his cattle and ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the fossil ...