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 ...

West Virginia exports more coal to China than any other state and some producers have expressed serious concerns over a ...

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 ...

Half of West Virginia coal miners at the time were Black Americans who fled the Jim Crow South or immigrants, many recruited by mining companies as they arrived on Ellis Island. When a miner was ...

“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 ...

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 ...

West Virginia, to save the puppies. "There is a gentleman down there that visits a lot of the mine shafts, looking for puppies and looking for abandoned animals. This is like the 10th litter he's ...

"They could have a dramatic impact. They could evolve to the point where even furloughs of mining operations are considered, " West Virginia Coal Association president Chris Hamilton said.