Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Virginia Democrat Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine pressed the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration over its ...

A final investigative report into the death of a worker who died in a fall at the West Elk Mine last August has pointed to safety lapses that contributed to the accident. At 12:05 a.m. on Aug. 11, ...

Rare diagnosis sidelines Kanawha County EMT as departments unite to cover medical costs Following a rare diagnosis, local fire departments are coming together to help one of their own.Halle Schafer ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.

A West Virginia miner was killed within minutes of a mine accident earlier this month at a Nicholas County site, a federal report said. Steven Lipscomb, 42, of Elkview died 10 minutes after the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A Stillwater Mine worker was killed in an electrical accident underground Saturday morning on the ...

Libby Lindsay spent 21 years working underground as a miner for Bethlehem Steel in West Virginia. She saw many safety improvements over the years, and always felt grateful that she could call the ...

"The ministry has initiated investigations on the accident to get to the root cause and will contract an independent safety auditor to look into the safety of BCL mine,” Mokaila said. Four mine ...

WASHINGTON — Virginia Democrat Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine pressed the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration over its handling of a mining accident in West Virginia that killed one miner ...