Beckley is a newly-defined Metropolitan Statistical Area that is made up of Fayette County and Raleigh County in West Virginia. Beckley, known as the "Smokeless Coal Capital", is best known for ...

From coal mines in England to ... This underground mine also know as the Phillips-Sprague Mine is located in Beckley, West Virginia. The mine opened in 1889 and was operated as a drift mine ...

BECKLEY, W.Va: The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration reports a coal miner died in West Virginia last Friday. According to the MSHA website, the miner died at around 2:50 p.m. Friday at ...

Labor historians would be hard-pressed to name a person more deeply enmeshed in the struggle to unionize West Virginia’s coalfields than Sarah Rogers “Mother” Blizzard. Blizzard was a contemporary and ...

RALEIGH COUNTY, WV (WOAY)- The city of Beckley is accepting applications at several different locations, such as the Exhibition Coal Mine, the Youth Museum, Beckley’s Historic Black Knight, or the ...

The Beckley Art Center is providing young artists with their own exhibits.The Raleigh County Youth Art show is up for viewing ...

If you’re tired of rising utility bills, you are not alone. West Virginia senators say they share the same feelings and believe the answer is right under our feet.

Members of a group against a coal mine proposed in the Canadian Rockies denounced the project at a meeting in Calgary’s Beltline community. A trio of speakers from Water For Food, a group that ...

MANILA, Philippines — Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corp. (SMPC) has secured the green light from the Department of Energy for its planned P291-billion coal mine complex expansion ...

West Virginia produced 89 million tons of coal in 2021, according to the latest data recorded by the state miners’ office. That figure is down sharply from the 1940s through the late 1990s ...