A new solar project is coming to a former coal mine site in Wise County. On Tuesday, community members learned more from Sun Tribe Solar on how it will be designed. Project ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades ... Families in a tented town. Credit: Coal Age Magazine Thomas Andrews explained during his 2014 interview ...

When labor organizer Mother Jones arrived in a West Virginia coal town in 1901, residents were skeptical and mine guards were hostile. The United Mine Workers of America had successfully ...

The mining project to receive the highest award (up to $129 million) is for two inactive West Virginia coal mines in central ... The next largest grant ($90 million) was awarded to refurbish ...

She’s from a coal mining family in Summersville, West Virginia. She says it’s not too late for the state to reinvent itself, like she has. “Back home where I’m from there’s a town next ...

“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 ...

How abandoned coal mines in Appalachia are joining the global race for rare earth metals Researchers in West Virginia are hoping to develop scaleable methods for extracting rare earth metals from ...

Five astronomically spooky sights to help usher in the Hallowe'en season ...

BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) — Get ready for a spooktacular time of year. The Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley partnered with Theatre West Virginia in 2024 to bring The Cursed Coal Mine to Beckley.

Federal Mine Safety Chief Chris Williamson, the head of MSHA, toured the West Virginia University Academy ... $173,000 through MSHA’s Brookwood Sago Grant program to start mine safety training ...

The city of Magna, Utah, was once the home of a major coal ... mine to help make low-carbon concrete. On Tuesday, Terra CO2 Technology was picked to receive a $52.6 million federal grant to ...