The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

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 ...

West Virginia historically has only been able to plug just a few wells a year because of lack of funding. Federal investments ...

Not all tourist spots attract throngs of visitors. These places offer intrigue and visual appeal but also insight to ...

Gushing waterfalls race over moss-covered rocks; forested trails lead to abandoned coal mines; and dramatic rocky cliffs ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ... orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some ...

(AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned ... orders to allow mining on federal land and to loosen some ...

It also has drawn attention to the West ... advocated mining reform. No one agency tracks abandoned mines or funds their cleanup. But for the past two decades, the EPA, Bureau of Land Management ...

Rob Rice, who is the deputy secretary for operations for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, explained that these blowouts are not rare. Rice said his abandoned mine land ...

(WSAZ) – A blowout at an abandoned mine due to high water has caused ... They say the road is impassable and damaged. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West ...

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