West Virginia football will be honoring the state’s coal mining heritage this week with the program’s second Coal Rush game ...

The West Virginia Coal Association has praised U.S. Senate Republicans for declaring October 19–25 as National Coal Week. The ...

Lawyer Stephen Cawood built one of the greatest bodies of work of any Kentuckian to protect Appalachians from the adverse ...

By 2050, entire counties across Appalachia face the loss of nearly half their populations in what demographers describe as an accelerating demographic ...

From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story’s always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the wor ...

The Rise of Republican Socialism A new mentality led by President Trump and adored by at least some it seems within the Grand Ole Party — many call it Republican populism — is drifting well past its ...

State lawmakers and organizers gathered for an impromptu conference Wednesday to address proposed legislation aimed at ...

The Trump administration has elevated fossil fuels as a solution to rising electricity bills, positing that more coal and gas ...

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

There’s something magnetic about abandoned places. Maybe it’s the silence where there used to be noise, or the way wooden ...