As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

The state also has 15 percent of recoverable coal at U.S. producing mines, equaling around 1.8 billion short tons. Most of West Virginia’s coal production comes from underground mines ...

(AP/KDKA) -- A coal ... job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working as a longwall electrician at the underground Leer Mining ...

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 ...

(AP) — A coal ... job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while working as a longwall electrician at the underground Leer Mining Complex ...

A new push by the Trump administration for more coal production ... Mary West is an army veteran who lives in Beckley, in southern West Virginia's coalfield. She used to work in the mines locally ...

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency ...

according to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), by improperly discharged mine water from the Pinnacle Mining Complex, which entered local waterways. Coal companies are ...

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 ...

In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.

The coal industry ... in the state of West Virginia and has for decades. Most West Virginians have a coal miner or two somewhere in the family and in a lot of cases, mining runs through several ...