Governor Patrick Morrisey has issued a statement recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Sago Mine Disaster, which claimed ...

On Jan. 2, 2006, 12 men were killed in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia's Upshur County.

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

(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 ...

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 ...

McDowell County stands out on any map of West Virginia as the southernmost county in the Mountain State. Its demographics are ...