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

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

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

GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner died Friday, nearly a week after being injured on the job in northern West Virginia, officials said. Colton Walls, 34, of Bruceton Mills, was injured while ...

A West Virginia coal miner has died after operating an excavator. Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection pulled a mining permit for Bluestone Coal’s Poca surface mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. The mine is owned by Justice’s family ...

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 ...