When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, ...

West Virginia Mining Disasters Gov. Joe Manchin has called for a temporary halt to coal mining in West Virginia after the deaths of 16 men in four accidents since Jan. 2.

Time is running out for trapped West Virginia miners. April 9, 2010— -- This has been a week filled with desperate anguish for the families of the miners trapped in West Virginia's Upper Big ...

HICKS: So you worked in coal mines for more than 30 years and then you wound up at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia. Can you share with me what you experienced on the day it ...

In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay $210 million over a ...

West Virginia Report On Mine Disaster Points To State's Shortcomings : The Two-Way While a state review of the 2010 disaster that killed 29 coal miners isn't as pointed in assigning blame as some ...

FARMINGTON, WV (WVNS) — Coal mining is deeply ingrained with West Virginia history, which includes various mine disasters that occurred throughout the state. According to the West Virginia ...

Disaster at the Monongah coal mine in West Virginia in 1907 when an explosion killed more than 360 workers. Meaningful safety regulations were still decades away.

Mining companies have been slow to adopt new safety requirements. Critics say the West Virginia disaster shows that Congress needs to step in. The industry says it needs clearer guidance.

Another 239 men would be killed in 12 coal mining disasters in West Virginia before the end of the decade, including 97 miners at the Federal No. 3 mine in Everettville in Monongalia County.

In bygone days, the mine was among West Virginia’s most productive, owned by a succession of giant companies. But after production ceased in 1995, it became a money pit, consuming $900,000 a ...

Ruins of an abandoned mine in Havaco, W.Va., nearby where more than 80 West Virginia coal miners who died in a mining disaster in 1912 are buried. (AP Photo) “They didn’t care about them ...