With the return of State University’s Mining Engineering Technology degree program, local officials are now hoping to play a larger role in the resurgence of coal. That was the message that Dr. Darrin ...

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners are twice as likely to die ...

It was 162 years ago today when the nation first learned that “Mountaineers are Always Free.” Since then, West Virginians have worked hard to make their mark on bettering themselves and their beloved ...

“Colored People: A Memoir” follows the coming-of-age story of literary critic and professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., as a young black man in Piedmont, West Virginia. This memoir offers insight into how ...

On this West Virginia Morning, we look at efforts to revitalize a former Black coal camp, plus hear from award-winning singer and songwriter Carrie Newcomer for our Song of the Week.

Questions still remain about whether the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is fully able to carry out federally required black lung screening functions after reductions in force ...

Mitch Carmichael, the former secretary of economic development in West Virginia, is spearheading a new ad campaign urging ...