Thomas Francis Walsh, who immigrated to the States from Ireland at age 19, caught the western fever after the financial crash of 1873. His search for wealth led him from ...

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Presidents have long used coal miners as political props. Yet federal policies have done little to improve their lives, and ...

The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...

“It's not the EPA, it’s not Democrats that declared this war on coal,” Slocum said. “It was capitalism and natural gas. And being honest about the reasons for coal’s decline is the least ...

collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve near Fayetteville, W.Va., Thursday, April 17, 2025, (AP Photo/Leah ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains ...

(AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry ... cleaner-burning natural gas. U.S. coal production was ...

The Department of Energy, in a December report, said its strategy for meeting that demand includes re-using coal plants, which have been unable to compete with a flood of cheap natural gas while ...