WHEN VIEWED THROUGH the lens of history, today’s current events are no mystery. In last week’s column, we tore the dirty laundry from the seamy underbelly of the salmon restoration cabal that has ...

Two men accused of homicide and facing a potential death sentence if convicted asked Pennsylvania’s highest court to restrict ...

Botts was born in Black Diamond in 1931, back when the city was, well, not a city, but a Pacific Coast Coal Company town; his ...

Colorado has a blueprint for closing its coal facilities. Critics say the plan could drive up customers’ bills.

Ramaco, a mining company, is developing a small coal mine in Wyoming that will extract rare earth elements from the coal it ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Bingham Canyon Mine Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Mining Company built the “largest industrial mining complex in the ...

Southeastern Arizona has a rich mining history dating back more than 1,000 years.

Gold mining in Glen Canyon reached a zenith from 1883 to 1912; the canyon had been explored by Native Americans and Spanish explorers much earlier.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source.