A Raleigh County winter tradition returns to Beckley, officially kicking off the Christmas season. The Appalachian Coal Town Christmas kicks off at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine on Friday, November ...

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Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia. "I really don't care for those windmills," the 71-year-old says. "I guess I wasn't brought up with that kind of society.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey says crews have found the body of a coal miner who went missing when a mine flooded in West Virginia.

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 ...

The West Virginia Virtual Academy students stepped out from behind the screens to take a step into the past. The kids visited ...

West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change... This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a ...

Sheila Wagoner is not a fan of the wind farm overlooking Keyser, West Virginia. "I really don't care for those windmills," the 71-year-old says. "I guess I wasn't brought up with that kind of society.

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