"You know your neighbors and you were close," said coal miner Timothy Spratt. "You looked out for each other and their ...

As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong ...

“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 ...

If you're traveling between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, stop by this small New Mexican town to glimpse the past and enjoy its ...

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.

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 ...

Mining from the top down like that. So when coal mining really got started in the late 1800s, some of the coal companies actually produced coal towns ... in neighboring West Virginia, where ...

We want there to be mining ... a ghost town,” he said. “At least in my area, I don't ever see coal ruling again.” After spending the day in Boone Memorial Hospital in Madison, West Virginia ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, explores the ruins of the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in ... started working in coal mining three years ago.

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and ... orders to allow mining on federal land ...