West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has released a statement saying a West Virginia man died in a coal mining accident in Boone County.

According to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, the incident happened at the Progress Surface Mine in Twilight, West ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A 55-year-old coal miner died in a Wednesday morning accident in Boone County.

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

W.Va.’s coal companies that owe the federal government $434,000 in delinquent mine safety fine penalties want to keep tax ...

“There’s almost zero reason to be completely optimistic,” says Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. “It’s a disservice to coal-mining ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

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 ...

West Virginia’s economy has depended heavily on its mineral resources, and declining coal production in recent years has hurt the state economically. Today, mining safety and ecological concerns ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...