Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in United States Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va.’s business empire. The U.S. Office of ...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection pulled a mining permit for Bluestone Coal’s Poca surface mine in McDowell County, West Virginia. The mine is owned by Justice’s family ...

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

Stephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing ...

the county was among the most populous in West Virginia in the early 1900s when coal was being mined in record amounts. Its population has rapidly dwindled. As of the 2010 census, the population was ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, officials said Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an accident at the Progress ...

In addition, the coal-producing lands lying south of the Kanawha River and New River were referred to as the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, since at least the early 1900s. See, for example, this ...