CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The days of January 2, 3, and 4 in 2006 turned out two of the biggest stories in West Virginia’s history. One of them was euphoric and the other left a long and painful legacy on ...

A young woman seriously injured in a mine blast that killed two co-workers has a long road to recovery ahead and may have suffered permanent hearing loss. Mackenzie Stirling, 24, was the sole survivor ...

At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming pond shrouded in overgrowth and surrounded by metal pipes and rusted ...

November 19 marked 15 years since an explosion ripped through the underground Pike River Coal mine on the remote West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Twenty-nine workers were trapped in the mine.