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 ...

In West Virginia, and across the country, National Miners Day also holds a somber ... killing nearly everyone inside the mines, and the few that were rescued later died from their injuries.

The strikes that started in West Virginia in June of 1902 had dragged on for months, and mine owners had only gotten more combative as time passed. In their attempt to unionize miners, the seven ...

but the mood inside the city’s civic center was ... but it is in the places that do the mining. In West Virginia, it’s striking that even those who applaud Trump’s repeal of Obama’s ...

When up to 7,500 gallons of toxic 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) spilled into the Elk River in West Virginia, leaving 300,000 people without tap water for around a week, former miner Joe ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...