A county claims the court should look beyond numerical water quality standards when assessing the harm contaminants like ...

Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy Operations LP Surface Mine. This is the first coal mine fatality in ...

Recent news of 165 miners laid off at the Leer South Mine in Barbour County was blamed on a softening of the market for metallurgical coal. West Virginia Coal Association President Chris Hamilton ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – West Virginia’s long history of coal mining does not come without tragedy, and two of the deadliest mining disasters happened just 10 years apart on the same date.

With President Donald Trump back in office, fossil fuels are again at the forefront of the nation’s energy policy. Trump ...

(WCHS) — A Mercer County man is accused of stealing explosives from a mine site ... from West Virginia State Police. Rocchi is accused of stealing explosives from Bluestone Coal Site 34 in ...

West Virginia (CNN)-- Efforts were under way Sunday to reventilate a sprawling West Virginia coal mine so crews can recover the bodies of 22 miners who died in an explosion Monday, authorities said.

The child welfare system is the canary in the coal mine. Anyone who truly gives priority to fixing this system needs to ...

If you’re tired of rising utility bills, you are not alone. West Virginia senators say they share the same feelings and believe the answer is right under our feet.

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...