EDITOR’S NOTE: Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane explosion ripped through the mine, killing 11 ...

FAIRMONT — One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine Disaster took place. "The coal they were mining is the same coal I ...

This story is courtesy of the Kentucky Lantern, a project of States Newsroom. At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, ...

Camille Seaman, Antarctica, 2016 (all artwork pictured is featured in the COAL + ICE exhibition at the Kennedy Center) COAL + ICE, a project of Asia Society, is an immersive documentary photography ...

The team behind an independent documentary following a group of mine explorers in Cornwall says the reception from audiences has been "overwhelming". Filmmaker Dan Simpkins spent two years with the ...

In March 1976, two explosions over two days rocked the Scotia coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, killing 26 men. Fifty years ...