Towns like Welch and Bramwell leave echoes of prosperity ... it is down to 18,000. Coal remains essential to West Virginia’s economy, and few here want to see the mines shut down. Many of the people ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to ...

President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at boosting coal are getting a warm embrace in West Virginia. But there's ...

In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, everyone hopes the mine will keep giving up its coal to pay rare six-figure salaries. But their prayers ask that they return safely to the surface.

So we call it beautiful clean coal.” As he spoke, a West Virginia woman was fighting for life after methane from a gassy coal mine likely seeped into her home and exploded—just three days ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National ...