As many West Virginians are concerned about plans for data centers in the state, few may know that there are already several ...

More than 50 people attended a memorial and remembrance service, on Dec. 3, 2025, at the West Virginia State Capitol in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – Lawmakers, mining executives, miners, and community members gathered at the West Virginia Capitol ...

The West Virginia Coal Association and Greenbrier Smokeless Mining Company hosted the ceremony Wednesday.

These are the real heroes we should look up to. As a West Virginia native, I grew up around coal mining. I still remember when my grandparents had a coal house in their garage, and seeing my grandpa ...

Emergency rescue efforts are underway to save a worker who got trapped inside the flooded Rolling Thunder coal mine in West ...

Working in a verdant valley in southeastern West Virginia, Donnie Hairston restacks beehive boxes overturned by a bear and tries to lure wayward goats out of a chicken coop. He is a participant in ...

Morrisey issued all flags flown at half-staff, not just for Lipscomb but for all five of the West Virginia coal miners who lost their lives on the job in 2025: Steven Fields, Billy Stalker, Eric ...

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.

Coal mining is alluring for many in rural West Virginia, not for money alone. GLEN DANIEL, W.Va., April 7, 2010— -- Charlie Athey sobbed Tuesday night as he stood before friends and family at a ...

The Rolling Thunder coal mine near Swiss, in Nicholas County, West Virginia, is seen in this aerial photo on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in ...