From a coal mine about ... Tygart Valley River, a successor to the one built there in 1852. Every year, the city holds a re-enactment of the first Civil War land battle in West Virginia, won ...

West Virginia ... Coal River Mountain Watch, a grassroots group fighting the coal industry. “It looks like a vast, sparse wasteland, like after a nuclear war.” From the earliest days of coal ...

Monongah straddles the West Fork River and is about a 40-minute drive from Morgantown, the current home of West Virginia University. Although coal mining is a blue-collar profession, the town’s ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

(WVNS) — Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department ... the endangered Guyandotte River crayfish, which is an indicator ...

Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open.

(CN) —The Fourth Circuit on Thursday heard from a West Virginia county seeking accountability from coal mining companies responsible for ... waste into a tributary of West Virginia's Kanawha River, ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

the explosions of the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia. The blasts happened around 10 a.m. on Dec. 6, 1907, killing nearly everyone inside the mines ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

Trump's Push to Save the Fading Coal Industry Gets a Warm Embrace in West Virginia FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks ...