Senate Enrolled Act 425 eliminates the need for any local permit, land use or zoning approval to build a new energy ...

The coal industry once provided more than half of U.S. electricity production. But it has been in steep decline for decades ...

Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the ...

President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia. But there's ...

University of Montana paleontologist Kallie Moore has spent the past several years unearthing a short-lived attempt around ...

Saloons, cemeteries, ghost towns and stage stops like Cleator, Fairbank, Gleeson, Goldfield, Jerome, Sasco, Stanton are packed with Arizona history.

Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

Between Santa Fe and Albuquerque sits a tiny town with big character. Madrid, New Mexico started as a coal mining town, died ...

This week my wife and I head back to a local Coal Mining Ghost Town here in Alabama! Our plan of action is to mudlark the ...

Belleville City Council has voted to buy a parcel on West C Street from St. Clair County so officials can tear down a ...