May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...

The Jaspar Workman Cemetery is situated on Bald Knob in Boone County, West Virginia – about three miles south (as the crow ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia DNR held a public meeting Tuesday evening in regard to the master plan for the Forks of ...

As President Trump pledges to revive “beautiful” coal, Virginia’s coal counties have largely moved on to new ventures. But ...

The growth of solar has pushed renewables past coal in the regional grid that includes West Virginia. In the PJM market — which encompasses West Virginia, Pennsylvania and part or all of 11 ...

Less than 10% of carnivals have achieved this designation. Luehr’s Ideal Rides Inc. provides the carnival at the Old King Coal Festival.

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, 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 ...

"This town was built around a coal mine," says Hugh Collins from Muswellbrook ... I think [nuclear] is dangerous," says 25-year-old Chloe. Another cafe owner simply says "it's not going to ...

Tim Dawson and Captain Pottie Potgieter in the Hovercraft. Insert: The missing three-year-old, Aqhama Mnconywa. >Photo: Gia Radnai The Ehlanzeni Police Diving Unit obtained a new search and rescue ...

The Trump administration is calling back to work some laid off federal employees who focused on the health and safety of coal miners, firefighters, and survivors of 9/11, a Republican senator and ...

In 2016, Trump seized on the issue, promising to end what he described as Democratic President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” and to save miners’ jobs. It helped in West Virginia ...