In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades ... in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and imposed a system ...

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

I am white, and come from a small, rural, coal mining town in West Virginia. Mingo County is one of the places reporters from papers like the Washington Post have targeted for opinion polls, a place ...

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — The City of Beckley’s annual Coal Town Christmas is back this coming weekend at the Exhibition Coal Mine. Leslie Gray Baker, director of the Beckley Parks and Recreation ...

president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. “The Forest Service failed to consider that converting a National Forest road to a heavy-use coal haul road would have direct environmental ...