Wellmore Energy Co., a metallurgical coal mining company, plans to lay off 72 workers in Buchanan County, according to notices sent to the state in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...

Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...

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Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the explosion which ended up claiming 12 lives at the Sago Mine in Upshur County ...

(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.