Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...

An investigation is underway after human remains were found late Thursday night in the Cabin Creek area of Kanawha County, ...

He replaces longtime union head Cecil Roberts, a native of Cabin Creek, West Virginia. “You can’t replace a legend, you can ...

The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912–13 was one of the most dramatic and bloody conflicts in the early 20th-century labor struggles in southern West Virginia known as the Mine Wars. The strike ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1976 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection ...