Echoes of the Past' is an article series exploring connections between the WVU sports, the state of West Virginia, and ...

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

Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...

WHEELING — New West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose hasn’t even sat down yet as chairman of the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining ...

GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while ...

This is the first coal mine fatality in West Virginia in 2024. West Virginia Governor Jim Justice and First Lady Cathy Justice issued the following statement today after learning of the death of ...

(WCHS) — West Virginia exports more coal to China than any other state and some producers have expressed serious concerns over a potential trade war ... even furloughs of mining operations ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

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The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played ... and logging and coal mining both remain ...