Excavation work is underway to put out an underground coal mine fire that’s been burning in Boulder County for decades. The ...

An employee with Runyan Construction takes a temperature reading of a Gallup-area coal mine fire that's been burning since for at least 13 years. State officials announced Monday that two mine fires ...

Crews have begun a long-awaited project to extinguish a coal seam fire that has been burning underground on Marshall Mesa, south of Boulder, Colorado, for over a century. The fire, a remnant of the ...

The state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety is taking immediate action to try to reduce the danger of an underground coal mine fire on City of Glenwood Springs property that poses a risk of ...

GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – Two underground coal fires that were emitting toxic gases and threatening to disrupt infrastructure projects near the City of Gallup and nearby tribal communities have been ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado’s Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety is set to begin work next week to cool an underground coal mine near the Marshall Mesa in Boulder County. That mine closed ...

BOULDER COUNTY — Poofs of smoke and coal ash wafted from a 30-foot pit on Marshall Mesa as an excavator the size of a small house scooped dirt and coal out of the ground. The excavator broke chunks of ...