Andrew Little later became a Labour MP and was appointed Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry in 2017. In 2021, he aborted re-entry efforts, falsely claiming it was unsafe and too expensive, ...

The untold story of big money, black lung and doctors for the coal companies. Oct. 29, 2013 — -- For an increasing number of America's coal miners, the sunset on a career spent underground is ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A new documentary produced by WCHS-TV aims to explore the Coal Mine Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Blair Mountain. The first part of the documentary aired Wednesday night on ...

Sports movies are fast becoming a cliché, if they ever weren’t. The triumph-against-all-odds stories so prevalent in many of them is hard to make fresh. And coming off two last year — the wrestling ...

Broadway star Sutton Foster, who has won multiple Tony Awards for her work in shows like Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Music Man, will portray Loretta Lynn in the forthcoming stage adaptation of ...

Roughly two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 longtime miners, was recently fired. Two West Virginia coal miners with ...