A snowmobiler drove into a vertical mine shaft and dangled 20 feet above the bottom, Utah rescuers said. Rescuers got a call ...

In Emery County, fourth-generation coal miner Jared Simms says, “This whole area was raised on coal mining." But at 49, he ...

Searchers began drilling a sixth hole 1,700 feet into a Utah coal mine in a last-ditch effort to find six miners trapped in an Aug. 6 cave-in. "This is the last hole," mine co-owner Bob Murray ...

By the numbers: Utah is home to about 17,000 abandoned mines, according to data from the state's Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program. About 7,000 had been sealed off with metal grates, concrete and ...