According to the MSHA website, the miner died at around 2:50 p.m. Friday at the Black Eagle Mine in Raleigh County operated ...

A West Virginia coal miner has died after operating an excavator. Officials are saying a coal miner, Virgil Paynter, of Lynco, West Virginia died on Thursday in Wyoming County at the CM Energy ...

A coal miner died in Boone County on Wednesday following ... away after an accident at the Progress Surface Mine in Twilight, WV. All West Virginians should keep Steven’s family and loved ...

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

A narrow dirt road between the tiny mountain community of Bat Cave and the larger tourist mecca of Chimney Rock has taken on outsized meaning for area residents and on social media. A group of ...

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

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

Labor historians would be hard-pressed to name a person more deeply enmeshed in the struggle to unionize West Virginia’s coalfields than Sarah Rogers “Mother” Blizzard. Blizzard was a contemporary and ...

The strikes that started in West Virginia in June of 1902 had dragged on for months, and mine owners had only gotten more combative as time passed. In their attempt to unionize miners, the seven ...