West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

and the American South to begin work in the coalfields of West Virginia, where mines were opened in remote areas that often lacked existing towns. Coal companies established towns and imposed a ...

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A helicopter hovers over the Gee family farm, the noisy rattle echoing inside their home in this rural part of West Virginia. It’s holding surveyors who are eyeing space ...

Trump, of course, made support for the coal industry a key part of his campaign, and that was undoubtedly a major reason he carried West Virginia by 45 percentage points. But Justice now admits ...

As clean energy rises, West Virginia looks past Trump’s embrace of coal to what comes next By Justin Worland/Charleston, W.Va. Photographs by Peter van Agtmael—Magnum Photos for TIME It was a ...

The president of West Virginia Coal Association believes the announced ... up there,” Hamilton said on WAJR’s “Talk of the Town.” “So, we really hope they’ll reconsider this major ...

Construction will soon be underway on another section of the King Coal Highway near. Former Gov. Jim Justice joined local and state officials last November for what was largely a ceremonial ...

(The Center Square) – West Virginia continues to push other states to protect its coal industry. Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is urging Maryland House and Senate leaders to table a bill that ...