The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state. Our readers should note that a ...

5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

South Fork Coal Co. was hit with a lawsuit alleging that it exceeded its wastewater permits’ limits on pollutants discharged from three West Virginia surface mines, in violation of Clean Water Act and ...

In West Virginia, and across the country, National Miners Day also holds a somber meaning as it coincides with the anniversary of what is now known as one of the worst mining disasters in American ...

The coal wars of West Virginia mark the largest labor uprising in American history. From 1912 to 1921, tens of thousands of coal miners organized and united against the oppressive coal mine ...

the explosions of the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia. The blasts happened around 10 a.m. on Dec. 6, 1907, killing nearly everyone inside the mines ...

The City of Beckley’s annual Coal Town Christmas is back this coming weekend at the Exhibition Coal Mine. Leslie Gray Baker, ...

dark hole where coal mining ended seven decades ago. After overnight snowfall left a thin coating on the ground, work crews were maneuvering a bulldozer and crane to excavate more earth.

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 ...