GHENT, WV (WVNS) — West Virginia’s coal mining industry has faced some monumental mining disasters, with some of the worst occurring during the 1900’s. According to West Virginia Archives ...

According to the West Virginia Encyclopedia, the Farmington Mine Disaster resulted in the deaths of almost 80 coal miners at the Consolidation Coal Company’s Number 9 mine in Marion County on ...

PHILIPPI, W.Va. — Investigators with the state Office of Miner’s Health, Safety, and Training along with federal regulators ...

Operators of a large coal mine in north central West Virginia have announced plans to extinguish an underground mine fire.

president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. “The Forest Service failed to consider that converting a National Forest road to a heavy-use coal haul road would have direct environmental ...

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 ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — West Virginia can be a snowy place. Though not nearly as snowy as Maine or Alaska, it snows much of winter, ...

which commemorates the Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907, but one hasn’t taken place recently. He wants to see one return. Davis is adamant about preserving West Virginia’s coal heritage.

Randy Smith, a 64-year-old retired coal miner, is in line to be the next president of the West Virginia Senate ... worked the past nine years in coal mine safety after spending 22 years ...