Nearby, mining counties across Virginia ... Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol has become an unlikely beacon of hope. It employs 1,400 workers and has sent tax revenue rippling through the surrounding ...

Nearby, mining counties across Virginia’s slice of Appalachia were reeling after decades of job loss. Stacy and his friend Jim McGlothlin, both former coal magnates, seized on what they called a ...

His initials are carved on the chimney. River Road was used to ... Civil war soldiers discovered gold in the area, and mines were developed in Rock Run and near Great Falls. The Maryland Mine ...

“We're kind of a canary in a coal mine if we continue to have this ... Entire towns like Swannanoa and Chimney Rock were wiped out. Internet and cellular phone service evaporated.

An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed ... Two killed in separate mines in West Virginia. One miner was pulled into a conveyor system near Wharton; rock and roof support material ...

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The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners safe.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a ...

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A judge on ...

Kennedy Jr., to reinstate the program. His client in the case, Harry Wiley, a West Virginia coal miner, was diagnosed with an early stage of black lung and applied to NIOSH for a transfer to an ...