Earlier this year the Library of Congress added the recordings of Nimrod Workman to the National Recording Registry, which seeks out “audio ...

Public officials are propping up a Texas Bitcoin boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals ...

Summersville Lake is huge – the largest in West Virginia – and perfect for swimming, boating, or just splashing around. The ...

In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.

a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.

The president’s voters in West Virginia like his championing of the industry yet worry about possible curbs in mine ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains ...