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 ...

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former miner Joe Stanley was well prepared. He hadn't been drinking the water for years. Stanley, 64, worked at West Virginia's Marrowbone Coal Mine from 1981 to 1996. His employer was Massey ...

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 ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. According to a press release, the mining permit for Bluestone ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

Westfield (IN) safety Deacon King made his way to to Morgantown this past weekend, taking in West ... for the game was the Coal Rush, with WVU honoring the miners and wearing black uniforms ...

A West Virginia and Virginia lawmaker will help co-chair the relaunched Congressional Coal Caucus for the 119th Congress. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va, announced Thursday that she would co-chair the ...

Northern Appalachian Coal Mining Heritage Association President ... Davis is adamant about preserving West Virginia’s coal heritage. “We’ve been able to get so far because of the coal ...