A former West Branch valedictorian is excelling in a industry dominated by men. Amy Burt McBrayer, 34, a 2008 graduate of West Branch High School, is a mining engineer who now teaches at West Virginia ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. — Progress to build a Miners Memorial Wall in Beckley was announced Wednesday during the city’s annual remembrance ceremony for the 29 lives lost in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was set to be released Wednesday from an Arizona halfway house, marking the end of his one-year prison term for to his criminal ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Retired coal miner Stanley “Goose” Stewart questions whether it's safe for anyone to work in the industry right now. The Department of Government Efficiency, created by ...

In the latest instance of state employees mining cryptos at work, a unit of Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) has been caught red-handed diverting company electricity to earn bitcoin. State-owned ...

President Obama’s only mine safety chief reflected this week on more than seven years regulating the nation’s coal and hardrock mineral extractors, including an aggressive rulemaking period and ...

It was 12 years ago when an explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County killed 29 people, but for Betty Harrah, whose brother was one of those killed, she remembers it as if it were just ...

Today marks the ninth anniversary of the Upper Big Branch (UBB) disaster, one of the deadliest mining accidents in U.S. history. Twenty-nine miners' lives were claimed on Monday, April 5, 2010. The ...

MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Motorists who drive through Whitesville, West Virginia cannot miss a long, granite memorial. The engraving on the front is the silhouette of 29 figures. It’s a roadside memorial ...

Amy McBrayer, 34, the daughter of Lloyd and Paula Burt, is a 2008 graduate of West Branch High School. She is a mining engineer teaching at West Virginia University. A former West Branch valedictorian ...