The government has established a mining office in Kapenguria, West Pokot County, to regulate the growing artisanal mining activities and improve access to government services.

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

WHEELING — The West Virginia ... County. The move called for the current superintendent and assistant superintendent there to be terminated. A circumstance review was also heard regarding Mingo ...

Letcher County was 1 of 13 counties ravaged by catastrophic flooding in 2022, a situation exacerbated by damage strip mining caused ... counties stretching from West Virginia to Alabama.

(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 ... “We’ve transformed an ...

Williamson, assistant secretary for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, is a native of Mingo County in southern West Virginia which is separated from Kentucky by the Big Sandy River. Since ...

Williamson, assistant secretary for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, is a native of Mingo County in southern West Virginia which is separated from Kentucky by the Big Sandy River.

MATEWAN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, located in Matewan, West Virginia, is launching the Mingo County Black History Project, according to a news release. In the Mine Wars era ...

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 ...

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.