The president’s voters in West Virginia like his championing of the industry yet worry about possible curbs in mine ...

A Taylor County, West Virginia woman suffered severe burns after an early morning explosion at her home in Thornton on ...

The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

A West Virginia coal miner is taking legal action against the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The U.S. coal industry has been in a steep decline for decades, and President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

Coal, the fossil fuel that is still abundantly available in Southwest Virginia, has been a topic of discussion in recent days for local economic development officials. The week began with the Virginia ...

President Trump has not been shy about it - he wants the U.S. to use more coal ... West is an army veteran who lives in Beckley, in southern West Virginia's coalfield. She used to work in the ...

Miners from across West Virginia were in Charleston Tuesday for the kick-off of the 51st annual mining symposium. The two-day event is taking place at the Charleston ...

Nixon. In 1969 he signed into law the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act after public outcry over a mine explosion the previous year in Farmington, West Virginia, that killed 78 workers.

A new push by the Trump administration for more coal production is getting mixed reviews in West Virginia, where the majority of electricity is produced by coal and expensive for many residents.