Wilburton marks 100 years since a deadly 1926 coal mine explosion that killed 91 miners, as city leaders and families honor ...

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a tradition partly rooted in annual ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia — Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Earlier this month, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of ...

MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Crews today began the bleak task of carrying bodies out of a coal mine shattered by an explosion that left 29 men dead, only hours after families’ hopes were crushed when they found ...

The past week's West Virginia coal mine tragedy has brought the dangerous industry to the nation's attention once again and rekindled memories of local mining for some Quad-Citians. Though it is not ...

Friday marks 20 years since a mining disaster rocked a small Upshur County community.On January 2nd of 2006, the world’s attention was on the community of Sago. A mine explosion at around 6:30 that ...