The weekend’s torrential rainfall and subsequent flooding resulted in the blowout of an old coal mine in the Holden area on ...
West Virginia’s long history of coal mining does not come without tragedy, and the morning of March 2, 1915, turned into one of the deadliest mining disasters in the New River Gorge area.
At least one person is dead following historic flooding in Southern West Virginia’s coalfields this weekend.
Two of West Virginia’s worst mine disasters happened 10 years apart on ... the explosions of the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia. The blasts happened ...
For the people of Gillette, dropping coal… Nation’s largest ... the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four… More than a week ...
State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...