POCAHONTAS, Va. (WJHL) — The Town of Pocahontas has been awarded a grant to continue improvements at the Pocahontas Exhibition Mine. Officials gathered at the former mine site Friday to present the ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) _ Separate accidents at two West Virginia coal operations Friday left one worker dead, two others injured and a fourth worker missing, company and state ...

West Virginia mine safety officials say a 27-year-old worker was killed early Friday in an accident at a Greenbrier County coal mine owned by a subsidiary of Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources. It ...

Jack W. Gravely, former director of the Virginia NAACP and Richmond radio talk-show host, grew up in a part of Pocahontas called The Bottom, a black section on the edge of town. His mother worked as a ...

On his first day on the job at a Pocahontas mine in the early 1950s, William G. Skewes Sr. saw two men die. It was an experience that greatly impressed him, his son William"Rusty" Skewes Jr. said, and ...

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