By Anita Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING – The Meng brothers felt pretty good about their chances of making it out of the collapsed coal mine – until the sound of digging from outside stopped.

Deep cuts Miners have long faced grave health threats. Between 1900 and 1960, cave-ins, explosions, other disasters and mining accidents killed nearly 100,000 coal miners on the job.

WINDBER ― The community's 23rd annual celebration of its mining and ethnic heritage is taking place Thursday through Sunday along Graham Avenue. The Miners' Memorial Day Weekend features live ...

FOUR Chinese men have lived to tell a remarkable tale after surviving for 13 days in a collapsed mine - by eating coal and leaves. Trapped deep underground by a landslide, the miners showed ...

Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, sits at his kitchen table on April 15 in Madison, West Virginia. Carter retired from mining in 2012 and began receiving federal benefits for black ...

CHICAGO, June 23.--The situation at Coal City, Ill., among the striking coal miners seems to be fully as bad as that at Braidwood. Twice a week--Tuesday and Saturday--the distribution of ...

Located in Freestone County about 60 miles east of Waco, NRG Dewey Prairie Garden is a part of a massive effort to restore a 35,000-acre lignite coal mine, which stretches mainly into the town of ...

Most people in these communities - then called mining camps - worked for the coal mining companies, lived in company-owned houses, and bought food and other items at the company-owned stores ...

LANSFORD, Pa. — The severe thunderstorm watches postponed the 16th annual Coal Miners Heritage Festival in Carbon County. It's the first time it's ever been canceled in 15 years. Traditionally ...

The Labor Department announced Tuesday it has issued a new federal rule on miners' safety; the rule cuts down the permissible exposure limit for crystalline silica, linked to black lung disease.

Rubén Viejo remembers home being much different when the coal industry dominated the Spanish region of Asturias. “When I was little, there was a lot of life in these towns: kids everywhere ...