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

President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard. Gary Hairston, 71, is a retired coal miner ...

John E. Amos Power Plant, seen in June 2013, is a coal-fired plant owned and operated by Appalachian Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power in Winfield, West Virginia. (Getty Images) President ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON — State officials and federal lawmakers are praising a plan from the administration of President Donald Trump to breathe new life into the waning coal-fired power industry, though opponents ...

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

As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility company in the state is behind on monthly bills. A coal-fired power plant owned and operated by ...

CHARLESTON — President Donald Trump’s plans to boost the country’s struggling coal industry by investing millions of dollars into coal power plants, opening more land to mining and loosening ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Coal Association President Chris Hamilton is undoubtedly one of the leaders most excited about President Donald Trump’s recently announced $625 million investment in ...