POCAHONTAS, Va. (WVVA) -On Saturday, “Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine” reopened for the season. The mine got its start in 1882 as the first coal mine in the area.

A Taylor County, West Virginia woman suffered severe burns after an early morning explosion at her home in Thornton on Saturday, April 5.

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President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to boost one of his favorite energy sources. “We’re ending Joe Biden’s ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that ...

After President Trump signed an executive order to boost the coal industry, the labor union United Mine Workers of America is ...

An abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman’s death, even if that death “is neither ...

As President Donald Trump signed several executive orders this week meant to bolster America’s struggling coal industry, ...

Silica dust has replaced coal dust as the silent killer down mineshafts in Appalachia. More miners are developing respiratory ...

President Donald Trump shakes hands with coal miner Jeff Crowe during an event on energy production in the East Room of the ...