On this West Virginia Morning, we hear about an Appalachian Trail community resurging after Hurricane Helene, plus efforts to ...

In Southwest Virginia, we've long known the value of what's beneath our feet. For generations, coal has powered the region's ...

Thursday, April 17, 2025, (AP Photo/Leah Willingham) West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, explores the abandoned Kay Moor mine ... and structures at the former ...

Amanda Lawson, a West Virginia healthcare employee, is seeing the effects. Miners who come to her for care have “horrible” ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama's "war on coal" and to save miners' jobs. It helped in West Virginia, where a majority ...

A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the Trump administration implemented.

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” and to save miners’ jobs. It helped in West Virginia ...