West Virginia mine fatality reports heard by the Coal Mine Health and Safety Board, on Sept. 17, 2024, highlighted critical ...

At least eight U.S. coal miners have died on the job in 2024, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Four of them died in West Virginia. The incident is under ...

Two area lawmakers have introduced a bill that will provide a tax credit for the capturing and repurposing of methane emissions from active and abandoned mines. The legislation, which is being called ...

While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.

West Virginia’s voter participation has been well below the national average. In 2020, the coal-rich state had the ...

“All of the protections that are in place for miners today, West Virginia coal miners played a huge role in that,” Williamson recently told MetroNews. “They have fought for all of these ...

The final report was released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MHSA) regarding the death of a coal miner in ...

A southern West Virginia mine had been issued more than 2,000 safety ... a fatal incident occurred there Friday. The Mingo Logan Coal LLC-operated Mountaineer II Mine in Logan County was issued ...

Only 26 miles, but a world away from West Virginia’s state capital is Nellis, a former coal town tucked away from the main ...

Health insurance prices are higher in West Virginia than any other state — by a lot. Roughly twice as high as our neighboring ...

By WVUA 23 Digital Reporter Madison Brainerd The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement awarded the Alabama ...

A Family’s Story,” a memoir set in southern West Virginia from the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1960s, will be reviewed by ...