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

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Minnesota-based Talon Metals and Westmoreland Mining Co. signed an agreement Wednesday that gives Talon the sole rights to ...

Still, differences divided Virginia. Western industries – iron, coal, salt and oil – largely ... Confederate raids into the Union strongholds of northern West Virginia terrorized mountain ...

As a little known company has proposed a data center and natural gas plant in Tucker County — known for its natural wonder ...

In 1907, the West Virginia Rail Co. had fewer than 30 employees at work in a small wooden building on a three-acre plot on ...

In the 1890s, the Bighorns were a vast, rugged territory with few roads beyond wagon pathways. While horses and oxen could ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

Located on the Navajo Reservation 109 miles north of Flagstaff, the White Mesa mining district is one of the few documented producers of copper in Northern Arizona’s Colorado Plateau ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Knife River Corp. is selling its coal mines to a Colorado company, divesting itself of a business the company has been in for more than 80 years. Westmoreland Coal Co. is ...

The Midlothian Ruritan Club will be cleaning up the Midlothian Coal Mines. Members adopted the area as a project to keep the access trails and the mine site clear of trash and to trim back weeds ...

The full West Virginia routing of the Coalfields Expressway will take the new four-lane corridor from Welch in McDowell ...