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

Though West Virginia is among the 10 poorest states ... on free rather than enslaved labor to build such industries as coal, railroads and salt. Also, they scratched out a living on yeoman farms ...

In 1893, the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad (K&M) completed a line between ... 261 coal mines were operating within a 60-mile radius of Charleston, West Virginia, located in the Kanawha and New River ...

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

The US Environmental Protection Agency has granted West Virginia Class VI well primacy, allowing it to oversee and administer ...

Federal regulators have threatened to take over enforcement authority from West Virginia for another coal mine permit in ...

A West Virginia and Virginia lawmaker will help co-chair the relaunched Congressional Coal Caucus for the 119th Congress. U.S. Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va, announced Thursday that she would co-chair the ...

The company benefits from a favorable commodity mix, with strong grain and grain products offsetting weaker coal volumes ... if they don't want to invest in railroads. Every time a railroad ...

The Cyclones will try to stay hot when they take on No. 20 West Virginia at noon Sunday in Morgantown, West Virginia. It's a huge game for the Cyclones (13-6 overall, 4-2 Big 12), who after a slow ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

A cargo ship striking a bridge in Baltimore that shutters railroads’ ability to deliver export coal. A large customer shuts its doors ... Union Pacific into absorbing more intermodal volume at West ...