One of the most coveted pieces of Mine Wars history has found a new home and new life at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum ...

Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering valuable minerals in the process.

MOUNDSVILLE, W.V. (WTRF) — Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex held a lecture on preserving West Virginia’s coal mining history. The Abandoned Mine Lands department oversees public safety ...

A coal company owned by the family of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice continues to rack up fines and legal troubles over pollution from its now-closed coking plant in Birmingham.

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A three-mile stretch of the King Coal Highway in southern West Virginia is officially open. Gov. Jim Justice held a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday for the grand opening of ...

The tiny West Virginia village of Colfax is surrounded by a coal mine. Underfoot, tunnels stretch for miles to the north, south, and west. Above ground, the horizon is shaped by heaps of refuse ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) —The Fourth Circuit on Thursday heard from a West Virginia county seeking accountability from coal mining companies responsible for waste dumps, which it claims harm the Johnson ...

Though the number of employees has dipped, West Virginia has had the highest percentage of all coal mining employees in the nation since 2004.

Hatfield, a retired coal miner, raised two boys in the house a few miles from the West Virginia border and added on five rooms as his family grew.

Mine Water Is Spewing into this West Virginia Community While Companies Squabble Over Who Is Responsible Since the Pinnacle Mining Complex discharged dirty mine water into area creeks, locals ...

But West Virginia offers perhaps the clearest and most troubling portrait of what could happen as the coal industry’s decline continues.