Stephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing ...

Next month will mark four decades since the year-long 1984-5 miners’ dispute came to its dismal end, with defeated strikers returning to work ...

A 15-year-old boy was rescued from a Northern California mine shaft, officials said Monday. It happened in the Placer County city of Auburn near China Bar in the Auburn State Recreation Area, the ...