BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia community is remembering the 29 coal miners who died in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. An ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — New federal rules approved Thursday could help save lives at dangerous mines with a pattern of safety violations and put mo...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A former superintendent at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine — where an explosion killed 29 — will learn his fate afte...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of an ex-security chief who lied to investigators and ordered a subordina...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A former president of Massey Energy's White Buck Coal Co. will enter a plea on federal conspiracy charges in January as pro...

WHITESVILLE, W.Va. -- As some gathered in Whitesville Friday for the unveiling of the official Upper Big Branch mine disaster memorial, others were mo...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A former security chief convicted of lying to investigators after the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big Br...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Three experts on mine and workplace safety and health were named Monday to research ways to make U.S. coal mines safer as p...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Nine men who survived West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine disaster want to abandon mediation of their personal injury cla...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men two years ago Thursday will be permanently sealed with concret...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia mine safety officials issued 253 violations in their investigation of the Upper Big Branch disaster and targeted...

WASHINGTON -- The federal agency tasked with overseeing mine safety released on Wednesday its preliminary findings on the Upper Big Branch Mine disast...

BEAVER, W.Va. -- Federal investigators are preparing to release their latest findings about the Upper Big Branch mine explosion to the families of the...

WASHINGTON -- Alpha Natural Resources, the energy company that purchased problem-ridden Massey Energy Company after the 2010 Upper Big Branch (UBB) mi...

WASHINGTON -- Two public interest organizations are calling on Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden to revoke the corporate charter of Massey Energy i...

In an in-depth interview, independent Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster investigator J. Davitt McAteer discussed his new report on Massey Energy's "systematic failure to comply with the law" on numerous levels.

NEW YORK -- A year after the worst coal mining accident in decades took the lives of 29 workers, prompting urgent calls to revamp oversight of one of ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Massey Energy Co. on Friday rejected nearly every part of the federal government's theory on what caused the deadly explosio...

The fatal April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine started with a frictional ignition on the longwall face involving as little at 13 cubic feet of methane that would not normally be expected to cause such devastation.

"Every mine law ever wrote has been written in blood, but this time even that wasn't enough" - Fred Burgess, whose stepson died in the Upper Big Branc...

Federal investigators searching for the cause of the April 5 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster have collected evidence suggesting that the mine owner, Massey Energy, failed to adequately control coal dust.