A coal company once headed by the governor of West Virginia has failed to fully reclaim a surface mine visible from the highest peak in Kentucky, leaving a large scar in view of a planned tourist ...

WYOMING COUNTY, WV (WVNS) — Bluestone Coal Corporation’s mining permit for its Poca surface mine was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. According to a press release ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...