Federal mine investigators have issued a final report on a fatal mining accident on a Mingo County strip job from ... operated by Appalachian Resources West Virginia LLC. Mapes was employed ...

The tradition of coal mining is crucial to the economy and people of Appalachia, but hundreds of miles of mining land have ...

(AP) -- The Mingo County Airport Authority celebrated the opening of a 7,000-foot runway and its new Air Transportation Park on a reclaimed mine site ... on improving West Virginia's air ...

MINGO COUNTY, W.Va ... The resulting investigation led to the Gilbert-area mine, which last produced coal in November 2011. The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training ...

(WTRF) — Coalfield Development announces the completion of its installation of a ground-mounted solar array on a former coal mine site in Mingo County, West Virginia. Coalfield officials say ...

One house was destroyed, another damaged and coal cars knocked off the tracks in Mingo County Friday morning ... stores and other facilities in West Virginia would be affected by higher power ...

MINGO COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -Gov. Jim Justice and First Lady Cathy Justice a statement on Sunday evening after learning of the death of a coal miner in Mingo County, West Virginia. William Mapes ...

Mingo County, West Virginia — In West Virginia's hollers ... who was laid off two years ago from a mine. "I did know I didn't want to go back in the deep mines," he added.

Concerns about state mine safety enforcement emerged during and after an inspector’s report on the state’s investigation of a fatal incident at a Mingo County mine in February at the Coal Mine ...

This summer the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is launching the Mingo County Black History Project. In the Mine Wars era, more than 64,000 African Americans lived in West Virginia and made up ...