A preliminary MSHA accident report has been released following the death at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Drennen. According to the report, the accident occurred on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 12:30 p ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two companies have been cited by West Virginia regulators in separate fatal mine accidents. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Crews found the body inside Alpha Metallurgical ...

More than 50 people attended a memorial and remembrance service, on Dec. 3, 2025, at the West Virginia State Capitol in ...

The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State leaders reacted Thursday to the news of the death of coal miner Steve Lipscomb. Lipscomb, 42, of Elkview, a shift foreman, died in the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County ...

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 ...

U.S. Senators Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) are introducing a bipartisan Congressional resolution to recognize December 6, 2025, as this ...