A survivor of a W. Va. mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago is speaking out against a Trump recommendation to ...

The Bluefield Coal & Mining Show is set for September in the Brushfork Armory Civic Center, and the timing could not be better after Pres. Donald Trump’s recent executive action that, he said, will ...

The West Virginia Senate has passed bills that have drawn concern from the United Mine Workers of America over how they would ...

Libby Lindsay spent 21 years working underground as a miner for Bethlehem Steel in West Virginia. She saw many ... by the ...

Trump wants to see coal in a more prominent role to fulfil the nation’s power needs by shoring up the nation’s electric power grid. Flanked by coal miners, many from West Virginia, Trump ...

On April 5, 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers.

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed the legislation at the request of Gov. Patrick Morrisey. It’s a sweeping energy ...

Senate Bill 883 was discussed in the House Energy and Public Works Committee on Monday.This bill would give the director of West Virginia's Office of Miners Hea ...

Federal agencies are now instructed to push coal leasing on federal land. The United Mine Workers of America, along with and West Virginia officials, are supportive of the order aimed at ...

Coal mining in West Virginia, meanwhile ... and make sure mining equipment is safe, said Jack Spadaro, a longtime mine safety investigator and environmental specialist who worked for MSHA.