The weekend’s torrential rainfall and subsequent flooding resulted in the blowout of an old coal mine in the Holden area on ...

Firefighters with the Cora Volunteer Fire Department and workers with the West Virginia Department of Environmental ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving the state of West Virginia the authority to approve projects that will ...

Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy Operations LP Surface Mine. This is the first coal mine fatality in ...

While running his coal company Bluestone, Governor Jim Justice ushered the mines of West Virginia deep into the ... of the ...

West Virginia’s economy has depended heavily on its mineral resources, and declining coal production in recent years has hurt the state economically. Today, mining safety and ecological concerns ...

Column: How a reporting trip to coal country inspired my 7-year-old’s science fair project When science reporter Cameron Hickey made a recent trip to West Virginia coal mines, it afforded him a ...

“There’s almost zero reason to be completely optimistic,” says Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. “It’s a disservice to coal-mining ...

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 ...

As a major producer of coal for foreign and domestic use, West Virginia coal producers look at potential Chinese tariffs with ...