West Virginia now has more authority to regulate coal mining and reclamation of federal lands in the Mountain State.

The federal government is handing West Virginia expanded authority to regulate coal mining on federal land, potentially affecting jobs and the state’s energy future.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 1,000 coal mining jobs have disappeared in West Virginia since President Donald Trump returned ...

State and federal leaders met Wednesday to finalize an amendment to expand West Virginia’s control over coal mining on ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed an agreement that gives state regulators great oversight of activity on federal land.

The United Mine Workers of America is taking aim at proposed gas-fired power plants in West Virginia, saying those projects ...

Company blames adverse market conditions for the shutdown of seven mines along the Logan and Wyoming County border ...

Charleston, W.Va. — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

(AP) - Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.

DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an ...