In May, the surviving tin mill operation, owned by Cleveland-Cliffs, announced 300 of the fewer than 1,000 remaining steel workers would be laid off. At its peak, Weirton Steel employed 13,000 people.

Form Factory 1 is located on a 55-acre site where the Weirton Steel mill once stood. The expansion will enable the company to ...

“We’re especially proud to do this from the site of the former Weirton Steel mill, which was once one of the largest steel producers in the world and shaped the America we know today. At Form ...

Days after Cleveland-Cliffs announced it was halting its investment in a planned transformer manufacturing facility in ...

The city of Weirton is laying the foundation for its future, with talks of a new strategic plan. "This is the first council that has served without Weirton Steel here,” Mayor Dean Harris said.

14,000 people worked at Weirton Steel. In April of this year, the final tin mill was idled and the few remaining jobs were erased. “People around here expected the government to do something ...

WEIRTON — Cleveland-Cliffs has decided to halt investment in a planned transformer manufacturing facility to be located in Weirton, company officials announced Wednesday. “Our first-quarter results ...

The last steelworkers at the 115-year-old Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton plant leaving the iconic steel mill days before its closing. There is one glimmer of hope for this plant: Last week at a press ...

WEIRTON, W.Va. – Five months after announcing it would be idling the tin mill operations in Weirton ... The company has indicated steel for the transformers will be provided by the Butler (Pa.) Works ...

When the U.S. steel industry contracted due to foreign competition, the steel mill eventually closed and Weirton suffered the fate of many Rust Belt towns with sharp declines in population ...