Senate Bill 505, "Ensuring Reliable and Affordable Electricity Act," includes guidelines for utilities seeking rate ...

Over six years and more than 100 articles at the Union, K.W. Lee chipped away at the weak evidence and shoddy defense that ...

The longtime leader of the United Mine Workers of America, Cecil Roberts, is retiring.Roberts, a West Virginia native who has ...

December 6, 1907 - Worst coal mine disaster in US history: 362 miners are killed in an explosion at the Monongah Nos. 6 and 8 coal mines in Monongah, West Virginia. December 19, 1907 - An explosion ...

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

Many federal programs, organizations, and positions in West Virginia claim that DOGE has already been cutting them back significantly ...

Roanoke College is naming its 178-year-old Administration Building after Dr. M. Paul Capp ’52, an accomplished radiologist ...

After growing up in Yonkers, New York, Capp came to Roanoke on a baseball and basketball scholarship. He excelled in those ...

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...

Andrea Brickey, (PhD MinE 99) has been immersed in both mining and education for her entire life. With a father who worked as a coal miner and a mother who was a teacher, it’s no surprise that she ...

Legendary journalist K.W. Lee was fiercely committed to exposing political malpractice in the Capitol and recognizing Asian ...