This week on Inside Appalachia, we speak with the author of a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars. Also, ...

A coal mine where an underground fire on Jan. 13, 2025 prompted reported mine worker evacuations had a long history of safety ...

The Leer South coal mine in Barbour County will remain temporarily sealed after miners were evacuated due to a fire on Jan. 13, according to officials. Core Natural Resources, Inc. announced that it ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Some coal plant owners have already pushed back retirement timetables. The largest example, this one from just before the ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...

U.S. coal plant use is dropping, but utilities are delaying their retirement and running them — even when they cost more than ...

A West Virginia and Virginia lawmaker will help co-chair the relaunched Congressional Coal Caucus for the 119th Congress.

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

Core Natural Resources believes they have a plan to put out an underground fire and have production fully restarted by the ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for interior secretary told a Senate panel Thursday that the U.S. can leverage ...