The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday reversed the firings of more than 100 federal employees with the ...

A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in ...

(AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant ... as she traipses through the ruins of the abandoned Kay Moor mine. She talks enthusiastically about the ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. – President Trump recently signed an executive order to try and reinvigorate coal mining in the U.S.. The Four Corners Region is home to the third-largest coal producer in the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 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 ...

(WASHINGTON) — For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent ... who works at a health center in West Virginia, told ABC News that last week three miners came in and had horrible X-rays.

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National Park ...

West Virginia ... remaining coal-fired power plants with facilities that burn natural gas. Johnson wears the sash and crown from her pageant victory over a black dress and sneakers as she traipses ...

Thursday, April 17, 2025, (AP Photo/Leah Willingham) West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, explores the abandoned Kay Moor mine complex in the New River Gorge ...

West Virginia employed the most miners at 14,000, followed by Kentucky at 5,000. About half of the nation’s 560 coal mines are ... and reclaim abandoned and damaged mine lands.

(AP) — The winner of this year's West Virginia Coal ... the ruins of the abandoned Kay Moor mine. She talks enthusiastically about the industry's past, but also, occasionally, about what she thinks ...