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A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

West Virginia University is one of more than 800 institutions with graduate schools surveyed by U.S. News on an annual basis. West Virginia University confers degrees through various schools ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip tax-exempt status from organizations ...

(Scott Elmquist/ Style Weekly) Virginia took another decisive step in its ongoing reckoning with its Confederate past as the House of Delegates in a bipartisan move approved legislation to strip ...

The Israeli military killed at least 10 Palestinians, including a child, in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as its prime minister announced the start of a “large-scale military operation” in ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A driver is dead after a pickup truck crashed into a wall and a light pole west of the Las Vegas Strip Monday night, according to police. The collision happened around 10:33 p ...

The Palestinian government has said it is ready to take responsibility for running the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and is committed to managing crossing points in collaboration with the European ...

The Palestinian government says it is ready to take responsibility for running the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and is committed to managing crossing points in collaboration with the European Union ...

A hidden 120 metre mine shaft collapsed in an elderly couple’s back garden in North Lanarkshire. The Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) said it had been called out to a home in a former coal town ...