Inside Appalachia, a West Virginia man is reviving a Black coal camp through farming. Also, the legacy of Affrilachian poet ...

About 800 NIOSH employees placed on leave have set up a “war room” in West Virginia to keep campaigning for min ...

Residents near an underground coal mine in Donegal worry about subsidence, water issues as the mine begins an expansion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Life in Virginia ... mines, the work was relentless. Miners wielded pickaxes, hammers and drills, carving through seams of coal deep within the mountain. Explosives were sometimes used to blast ...

FOSTER, West Virginia ... coal to working as a boss. Some mines were so small, he said, it was like working under a table. As the seams grew narrower over the years, more rock was mined along ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs. For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia ... through more rock to access deeper ...

(WASHINGTON) — For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping ... of miners as they cut through more rock to access deeper, hard-to-reach coal seams ...