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 ...

West Virginia exports more coal to China than any other state and some producers have expressed serious concerns over a ...

West Virginia-based coal mining company White Forest Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, ...

Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy Operations LP Surface Mine. This is the first coal mine fatality in ...

Half of West Virginia coal miners at the time were Black Americans who fled the Jim Crow South or immigrants, many recruited by mining companies as they arrived on Ellis Island. When a miner was ...

president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. “The Forest Service failed to consider that converting a National Forest road to a heavy-use coal haul road would have direct environmental ...

West Virginia, to save the puppies. "There is a gentleman down there that visits a lot of the mine shafts, looking for puppies and looking for abandoned animals. This is like the 10th litter he's ...

(WCYB) — A coal mining company with operations in Southwest Virginia has closed down, which could mean dozens of people are now out of work. Coking Coal LLC, which provides coal for use in iron ...

West Virginia’s economy has depended heavily on its mineral resources, and declining coal production in recent years has hurt the state economically. Today, mining safety and ecological concerns ...

Sharyn Fisher, the owner of Fisher’s Furry Friends of PA in Greensburg, told Channel 11 this is the second set of puppies they’ve saved from Wyoming County, West Virginia.

"They could have a dramatic impact. They could evolve to the point where even furloughs of mining operations are considered, " West Virginia Coal Association president Chris Hamilton said.