Pit inspector Frank Keegan was hailed as one of the heroes who helped save lives when 168 men perished in the West Stanley ...

Beamish Museum will hold an act of remembrance in its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There ...

Shoppers in Durham have been warned to avoid an area of the town centre after an "underground explosion". Emergency services were called out to the area at around 12.30pm on Friday afternoon (May ...

The United States service member who was killed alongside three defense contractors when their small plane crashed in the ...

The West Stanley pit disaste r took place on February 16 1909 and saw 168 men and boys killed. Some were as young as 13 while others as old as 66. But the people of the area have not forgotten those ...

A U.S. Marine from California was identified by military officials Sunday as one of four people killed when a plane ...

Poignant tributes were paid in County Durham at the weekend to mark the 116th anniversary of one of the worst mining ...

Sgt. Jacob M. Durham, 22, of Long Beach, was taking part in a routine mission “providing intelligence, surveillance and ...

A U.S. Marine from California has been identified by military officials as one of four people killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines ...