Happy Saint Patrick’s Day weekend! I always felt a kinship with the Irish because my paternal great grandparents, whom I had never met, were born in County Cork, Ireland. They moved to ...

An old coal mine will be transformed into a ... The Lake Macquarie mine began underground and open-cut mining activities in the late 1800s before operations finished in 1971.

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...