A FORMER mining district where almost a quarter of working age people are jobless has “no hope”, disgruntled locals have said ...

A family-run luxury clothes boutique in Co Tipperary, that has been open for nearly 100 years, is set to come into new ...

unassuming schoolmaster in a small Welsh mining town, with a passion for theater that rubs off on a certain naive, bright-eyed 17-year-old boy in his English class. As played by Toby Jones with ...

Ever Since the establishment of gas Works it has been considered a matter of great impbftpnee to find some useful application fdr their waste products, principally the coal tar The old custom was ...

I stopped by the local middle school which just a decade before had won a national citation from President Bush, still proudly displayed on a plaque at the front entrance. The school also was closed.

That’s more than double the old coal plant’s output. Even though gas produces fewer carbon dioxide emissions than coal, Homer City’s plant could become one of the state’s top sources of ...

The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to ...

Raylee Carroll of Du Quoin, was crowned the 2025 Princess Flame on April 12, at the Old King Coal Festival Princess Flame Scholarship pageant at the Civic Center in Benton. Raylee is attending SIU ...

December 22, 2020. This date was the last trading day of the VanEck Vectors Coal ETF, which traded under the "KOL" ticker until the market's only coal-focused exchange-traded fund was closed due ...

No new coal plant has come online since 2013, during the Obama years, and the average age of the current fleet is 53 years old. Currently, coal makes up about 16% of the electricity mix in the U.S ...

WEST FRANKFORT — Twenty-two year old Raylee Carroll of Du Quoin was crowned 2025 Princess Flame before a large crowd Saturday afternoon during the Old King Coal Festival Princess Flame ...

WEST FRANKFORT — The Old King Coal Festival has named John Smith of West Frankfort as the 2025 Old King Coal. John will reign over the festival, which runs May 8 through 11 in downtown West ...