The Youth Museum of Southern WV and the Raleigh County Historical Society are teaming up for a “History Alive!” program that highlights Minnie Reed.

The Coal Workers Health Surveillance Program studies respiratory disease in miners and provides health screenings and information, particularly about black lung. A Kanawha County coal miner named ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and ... School across the Kanawha River in ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Nestled in the mountains of southern West Virginia, Bluefield offers retirees an affordable place to call home. The cost of living here is about 20% lower than the national average. Housing is the ...

One person was injured after a coal truck overturned Wednesday in Kanawha County.The crash was reported about noon along ...

Coming out of high school in 1956, East Bank senior Jerry West may not have been WVU's main recruit. The Mountaineers were ...

The Kanawha County Commission in Charleston, West Virginia restored funding to Camp Virgil Tate -- near Sissonville, Kanawha ...

A woman who was reported missing in Kanawha County after her family said they hadn’t heard from her in weeks has been found safe, deputies said. Clara Merryman, 32, was located and found safe by ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — It’s time for summer break in the Kanawha County school system. Tom Williams Students and teachers celebrated the last day of the school year Monday. “The kids have made ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — Kanawha County deputies are asking for the public’s help finding a teenager who has been reported missing. Tabitha Lynn Casto, 17, was reported missing from the ...

In the early 20th century, the coal industry was booming in Appalachia. That made the region a destination for Black migrants from the Deep South, who were moving northward in search of new jobs.