A West Virginia coal miner has died after a mining accident in Boone County. According to West Virginia Governor Patrick ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A 55-year-old coal miner died in a Wednesday morning accident in Boone County.

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 ...

The West Virginia Mine Wars are an important but little known piece of American history. Coal miners in southern West Virginia had been trying to organize a union, while coal companies tried to stop ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, officials said Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an accident at the Progress ...

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

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