Scranton firefighters spent part of Tuesday at the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour in McDade Park training to extricate mine visitors in the event of an emergency. The training comes almost a year after ...

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Scranton firefighters took their training underground Thursday, literally, at the Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour in McDade Park to prepare for the unexpected.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Tuesday grant funding from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for the West Virginia Office of ...

The push to preserve coal, reflected in the billions of yen in subsidies KCM receives, has irked Japan’s developed-nation peers. Like the rest of the Group of Seven, Japan has pledged to ...

Two $1 million training facilities are in the works for Rend Lake College - one at the college's satellite campus in Pinckneyville and another at the main campus in Ina. RLC plans to build two ...

HARRISBURG -- Mine safety and continued support of coal mining in Southern Illinois took center stage Tuesday as state and college officials broke ground on a simulated mine facility at ...

President Donald Trump has been adamant in voicing support for coal mining. From his first campaign, he has talked a lot about the importance of the industry as a domestic energy source. There’s ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) offices that were scheduled to close will now remain ...

Coal mining in West Virginia, meanwhile, spent the ensuing years in a political fight that Republicans largely won. As a 2016 presidential candidate, ...