The U.S. Department of Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement have announced that $140.7 million in ...

Coal industry officials said more than a thousand miners’ jobs are at risk this summer as demand for West Virginia’s ...

A group of Canton homeowners is complaining about what it calls a strip mine operation along Route 44, and the dispute has an odd quirk: The property owner involved is a member of the town’s … ...

Letcher County was 1 of 13 counties ravaged by catastrophic flooding in 2022, a situation exacerbated by damage strip mining caused to local watersheds. The prison slated for Roxana will ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (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. Coalfield ...

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 ...

A drag strip in Mingo County, recently sold, is built on former mine land used for piling mountaintop removal waste. Photo courtesy Neil Wicker Aerial Photography MYRTLE – On a cloudy Saturday in ...

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 ...