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

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

Delinquent penalties for environmental violations in southern West Virginia are piling up for one of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice’s ...

The Gauley River in West Virginia has been named one of the 10 most endangered rivers in the U.S. for 2025 due to pollution ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A two-day show that helps coal mining businesses connect with one another, but also potential customers is in Charleston. The West Virginia Coal Show, put on by SEMCO ...

The West Virginia Coal Hall of Fame, a joint initiative between the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute and the West Virginia Coal Association and housed at the WVU Statler College of Engineering ...

The coal industry once provided more than half of U.S. electricity production. But it has been in steep decline for decades as operators went out of business and utilities installed more renewable ...

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.

President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia. But there's ...