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. The ...

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 ...

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

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 Southeastern ...