W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week on Inside Appalachia, black lung disease is back. In fact, it never went away. Now, younger and younger miners are living with a particularly nasty form of black lung disease. Regulators and the coal industry have known about the problem for decades — but they’ve been slow to respond. One reporter asks, “What would happen if thousands of workers in any other industry got sick and died just because of where they worked?”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHouse Judiciary took up a bill Tuesday that addresses mine safety. Senate Bill 357, also known as House Bill 2566, is the Coal Jobs and Safety Act of…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFederal funds for black lung benefits in West Virginia were cut about 44 percent. The United States Department of Health and Human Services Black Lung…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFamilies of the victims are bracing for another anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Disaster; an explosion that ripped so violently through an underground…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMembers of the state Senate had 25 bills on their morning calendar Monday, passing almost all unanimously. Those bills included:Senate Bill 623The bill…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training confirms that a miner died at Mettiki Coal’s Mountain View Mine in Tucker County.In an…
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