In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

Advocates want federal regulators to shut down what they say is an illegal coal haul road in West Virginia's Monongahela ...

This led some mines to hire more workers ... and in 2009 the state named coal its official rock. “West Virginia has always relied on coal,” says Tom Southern, who lives near the coal museum ...

On November 20, 1968, an explosion occurred in the Consolidation Coal Company’s Number 9 mine in Farmington, WV. Early that morning the explosion caused flames and smoke to pour out of the mine ...

In the shadow of some of America's most controversial coal mines, where companies ... double-berth structure with a wooden porch in southern West Virginia. It's a place where mobile phone ...

Jean Battlo is a playwright and local historian who grew up in southern West ... They had heard about the coal mines but they didn’t know anything about West Virginia. They came down to the ...

The Senate’s top leadership position was open because Craig Blair, who has held the position since 2021, was defeated in the ...

The agency is the regulatory body in charge of enforcing environmental and health requirements on coal mines and mitigating the impacts of such mines after ... over 60% of its range and now limited to ...