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Southern Wayne and northern Mingo have been hit hard by the decline of coal. For the people left, it’s a struggle to move forward.
While tourism is billed as one avenue for economic development, people in the northern Mingo and southern Wayne counties say they need jobs.
Memorial will honor Brookwood coal miners who died in 2001 explosion
The miners were killed after a pair of blasts ripped through a now-closed Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 5 at Brookwood in ...
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Mine Safety Lapses Revealed in West Virginai
The Coal Mine Health and Safety Board heard reports at its monthly meeting from state mine inspection office representatives ...
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State board hears WV mine fatality reports highlighting critical safety failures
West Virginia mine fatality reports heard by the Coal Mine Health and Safety Board, on Sept. 17, 2024, highlighted critical ...
33rd annual Mount Hope Jubilee
MOUNT HOPE, WV (WVNS) –The 33rd annual Mount Hope Jubilee is coming up and will feature music, an alumni gathering, a parade ...
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Travelling Taste Buds: West Virginia’s “Pepperoni Roll Trail”
Many states across the country have their respective cuisines, and culinary practices that just mean more to the communities that surround them. West Virginia’s ...
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Patrick Pioneers – Fayerdale Residents-Horace and Minnie Hooker Brown
For the past two weeks, we have been visiting the Goblintown community. This week, we will venture a couple of miles over ...
W.Va.'s 82nd House candidates sit down with DP editorial board
The two candidates for West Virginia's 82nd House appeared before The Dominion Post editorial recently, in a ranging discussion that addressed abortion rights, failing infrastructure, alternative ...
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9th District: Griffith says he likes to ferret out government problems; Baker says Griffith is invisible in the district
Early voting for the Nov. 5 general election starts Friday, and, in the 9th Congressional District, Rep. Morgan Griffith, ...
Black lung advocates send letter urging congressional action to up benefits as inflation rises
Advocates for coal miners with black lung and their families sent a letter to Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe ...
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Manchin, Capito urged to fix black lung benefits before end of year
On Tuesday, the Kanawha, Fayette and Nicholas County chapters of the Black Lung Association in West Virginia sent a letter to Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore ...