Stephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing ...

Echoes of the Past' is an article series exploring connections between the WVU sports, the state of West Virginia, and ...

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 ...

WHEELING — New West Virginia Sen. Chris Rose hasn’t even sat down yet as chairman of the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...