The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more ... Elkins to Charleston following completion of the Coal & Coke Railway. The new railroad, a project of ...

A now near-ghost town in West Virginia was once home of lavish a hotel, a "historic spot for trouble" that hosted a ...

Even Switzerland-based Glencore, one of the West ... Coal prices rose. By 2018, Low’s company returned to financial health. Logistics remained a persistent problem: the company’s main mine ...

This month, we talked to Bob Yoho, the former president of West Virginia Writers who writes westerns and has been published in several magazines. He’s an all-around good guy, and ...

Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been ...

West Virginia ... coal mining as attractive an employment proposition as they did in the past. Mining is dirty, dangerous, requires physical effort over long days, and pays relatively low wages.

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

In 1909, one of the worst mining disasters in US history occurred when a fire erupted at the St. Paul Coal Company's mine ... a mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people ...

The Coal River is a larger tributary of the Kanawha River that drains part of the Cumberland Mountains region in southern West Virginia, a rugged area of about 900 square miles. Waders explore the ...

At the height of the early 1980s oil boom, the five industries most sensitive to oil prices—coal mining, oil and gas ... energy-related industries were West Virginia, Wyoming, Delaware, Oklahoma ...

Federal authorities have again threatened to take over mine permit violation enforcement from the West Virginia Department ... for Ashford-based South Fork Coal Company mine permits in Greenbrier ...