A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency ...

Morgantown, West Virginia — In West Virginia's coal country, Marion Tennant says he was destined to work in the mines. "That was the only thing in this area when I graduated high school ...

In Southwest Virginia, we've long known the value of what's beneath our feet. For generations, coal has powered the region's ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” and to save miners’ jobs. It helped in West Virginia ...

One of Jim Justice’s coal companies owes West Virginia over $1 million in delinquent penalties for environmental violations ...

Plaintiff Harry Wiley, a West Virginia mine electrician who has worked in coal mines for 38 years, was diagnosed with early-stage black lung last November. Canceling the health surveillance ...

Appalachia and coal miner advocacy groups celebrated that dozens of MSHA offices that were scheduled to close will now remain open.