"Coal Town, USA": Doesn't sound like the most appealing place to visit, right? What with all those miners trudging around, pickaxes over their shoulders, hard hats off-kilter, their bodies ...

States such as West Virginia were left limping ... a souvenir store in Matewan, a town in Mingo County, one of the hardest-hit coal mining corners of the state. Hatfield has watched a bustling ...

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

The Exhibition Coal Mine and Youth Museum announced on Thursday its West Virginia Day Celebration set for Friday, June 20.

(WBOY) — Two coal ... mining complexes in the region, including one in Southern West Virginia and one that is partially in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle, according to its website ...

Much of the coal mined in West Virginia in 1907 came from the state’s northern counties. Monongah is a town in one of them. Known for hunting and farming before mining interests moved in ...

Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia ... one of the few remaining coal trains passes through the town of just under 5,000 people. Watching it rumble ...

Pleas last summer from the Nestors to the West Virginia ... mine disasters for more than 50 years, and Mullens, whose small-town legal practice has embraced the goal of holding coal mining ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted ... begin work in the coalfields of West Virginia, where mines were opened in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and ...

Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia ... one of the few remaining coal trains passes through the town of just under 5,000 people. Watching it rumble ...