West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

and the American South to begin work in the coalfields of West Virginia, where mines were opened in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and imposed a ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed ...

With massive coal reserves acting as a natural charcoal filter, West Virginia used to be famous for its well and spring water. "We had the best darn water in the world," Prenter Hollow ...

Its economy is tied to that of the nearby City of Saint Albans, West Virginia, and the larger Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes more than 250,000 residents. Kayaks gathered at ...

By the 1940s, the company had grown to become one of the largest coal companies in southern West Virginia, though many other mining companies headquartered in the town between 1910-1935. Companies ...

BOONE COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – A West Virginia coal miner has died after a mining accident in Boone County. According to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, the incident happened at the Progress ...