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 ...

This led some mines to hire more workers ... and in 2009 the state named coal its official rock. “West Virginia has always relied on coal,” says Tom Southern, who lives near the coal museum ...

(WOWK) — A mining company operating in southern West Virginia has been cited after ... Officials said Mingo Logan Coal LLC—who owns and operates the Mountaineer II Mine—did not comply ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Recent news of 165 miners laid off at the Leer South Mine in Barbour County was blamed on a softening of the market for metallurgical coal. West Virginia Coal Association ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A coal miner died after injuries suffered Wednesday morning at a mine in Boone County, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a release. Steven Fields ...