Smokestacks and tower blocks rarely conjure up visions of creative renaissance. Yet from the Silesian heartlands of Poland to the industrial fringes of Bulgaria, once gritty metropolises are ...

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) on Wednesday announced that Eckley Miners’ Village — a landmark patch town preserving the legacy of Pennsylvania’s Anthracite mining industry — ...

For some, Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts evoke images of coal mines, industrial sprawl ... Izolyatsia sought to shift ...

Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, ...

A committee appointed by the High Court of Meghalaya has found evidence of illegal mining and transportation of coal in the State’s South Garo Hills district. The panel, headed by retired judge B.

By Amy Felegy for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Terri Dee for Ohio News Connection reporting for the Arts Midwest-Public News Service Collaboration Each eight-by-eight feet, two giant paintings ...

Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and ...

“We are excited to be entering the final stage of this project and learning what it could mean for Wyoming while serving SER’s mission of supporting the coal and mining industries,” Fred McLaughlin, ...

The death toll in a coal mine fire this week in southern Poland rose to three on Saturday, hospital authorities said. The victims were among 16 miners injured at the Knurow-Szczyglowice coal mine ...

Methane in Poland’s coal mines has led to occasional fires and deadly explosions ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a grant.

The U.S. has some of the largest coal reserves in the world — enough to last more than 400 years at current mining rates, according to the Energy Information Administration. The industry relies ...

A member of a five-person panel created by former energy minister Sonya Savage in 2021 to consult the public on the future of coal mining in Alberta says he's in a "state of shock" about recent ...