In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine exploded. An investigation following the disaster found that mines in southern West ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVNS) – West Virginia has been given more power by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to manage coal ...

WASHINGTON — West Virginia will take on a larger role in regulating coal mining and land reclamation activities on federally ...

Company blames adverse market conditions for the shutdown of seven mines along the Logan and Wyoming County border ...

West Virginia now has more authority to regulate coal mining and reclamation of federal lands in the Mountain State.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Governor Patrick Morrisey joined Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Wednesday to formalize an amendment ...

Charleston, W.Va. — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an ...

Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.