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The West Virginia Virtual Academy students stepped out from behind the screens to take a step into the past. The kids visited the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine to learn about Appalachian Culture and ...

West Virginia and Wyoming will both ditch their traditional school colors to wear all-black uniforms at their respective college football games this ...

In 2023, dirty mine water gushed out of the ground behind James Christian's home, flooding his yard in Wyoming County, West Virginia. Sinkholes formed, a strong sulfur-like odor lingered in the air ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. -- Many West Virginians are feeling a renewed sense of hope after President Donald Trump issued new executive orders this month aimed at reviving an energy source that has long ...

The West Virginia Republican Party hold a news conference to praise the Trump administration's investment in coal at the state Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia on Oct. 6, 2025. (Photo courtesy of ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, ...

Authorities say three people missing since last weekend have been found alive at a nonoperational coal mine in West Virginia.The state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training says in a statement ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ALKOL, W.Va. • On the day Victor Clark retired after 26 years at the Hobet coal mine, the bosses called him to the office for a ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...