In a town where Republicans usually measure victory by how large the margin is, not whether they win, the results of a ...

Doubt has taken root in Lens ahead of the March 15 and 22 municipal elections. A century-old Socialist stronghold, the town with a mining past could fall to the far-right Rassemblement National.

Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of these vertical passages drop more than 1,000 feet, connecting long corridors carved ...

The Salt Lake Tribune reports Utah’s rush to build data centers is likely to rely on fossil fuel energy for the foreseeable future.

President claims U.S. has sunk more than 50 Iranian ships as war enters its 13th day while he campaigned in Kentucky to support a challenger to longtime nemesis Rep. Thomas Massie ...

Eight years after her death, Missoula investigators are still searching for answers in the case of 45-year-old Susan "Susie" Wood.

OVEN FORK, Ky. (WYMT) - Families, survivors and mourners gathered Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Scotia Mine disaster, which killed 26 miners in the Oven Fork community of Letcher County ...

Scientists have developed a methodology to convert America's half a million abandoned coal mines into long-term pumped hydro ...

Over the past year, GOP leaders and the Trump administration have used a law known as the Congressional Review Act to push for coal mining in Montana, oil drilling in Alaska and copper mining in ...

Frontier cowboys, coal miners, buffalo hunters, prostitutes, saloon keepers and lawmen did dangerous, dirty work in the frontier West. Dynamite, ...

Nearly 50 years after it was discovered that an estimated 4,500 barrels filled with toxic waste were dumped and buried on a 650-acre strip mine in northwestern Washington County, federal environmental ...

In recent years, there have been growing calls to shut down coal power stations and transition to renewable energy.