In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water rushed in, trapping workers and destroying the industry in the region. This ...

Retiring UMWA President Cecil Roberts talks about where the coalfields have been and where they could be going.

Rightward Shift: Long before the Trump administration began pushing patriotic curricula and expanding private school choice, ...

Ruidoso sits like a jewel in the crown of the Sacramento Mountains. Tall pines sway overhead as you stroll through a downtown that manages to be both rustic and sophisticated. The name means “noisy” ...

Visit Arnold Mine for a chance to go back in time and to journey to another world. It's one of the most fascinating hikes in ...

Mountain State Spotlight talked with retiring UMWA President Cecil Roberts about a life leading the nation’s coal miners ...

The Western Mining and Railroad Museum stands as Helper’s crown jewel for history buffs. Housed in the former Helper Hotel building, this museum isn’t one of those sterile, look-but-don’t-touch ...

For just the second time in program history, the West Virginia Mountaineers will be wearing all black uniforms, paying homage ...

We are now less than 48 hours from the West Virginia Mountaineers taking the field for the second-annual Coal Rush game.

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into ...