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 tipples and processing ...

in southern West Virginia’s coalfield. She used to work in the mines, in about 1980, for Ranger Fuel and Pittston Coal in Raleigh County. West called it hard and dangerous work. An injury put an ...

A new push by the Trump administration for more coal production is getting mixed reviews in West Virginia, where the majority of electricity is produced by coal and expensive for many residents.

Power’s Harrison and Fort Martin power stations, and Dominion Energy’s Mount Storm Power Station have sought a two-year exemption from the Trump administration for the Mercury and Air Toxics rule.

The county’s solar agreement guarantees that it will pay less for electricity. Senators said the state needs to commit to ...

He was 86. In 2010, an explosion in a coal mine near Montcoal, in West Virginia's Raleigh County, killed 29 workers. In 2016, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to mandate six weeks of fully ...

President Trump has not been shy about it - he wants the U.S. to use more coal, even though most utilities have turned away from it. West Virginia ... families in Raleigh County are living to ...