After the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, states will have to cover 75% of the administrative costs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. WVDOT using industrial foam to remedy dips on ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 100 years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A new documentary produced by WCHS-TV aims to explore the Coal Mine Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Blair Mountain. The first part of the documentary aired Wednesday night on ...

Scene of actual fighting at the Battle of Blair Mountain, showing armed Logan County deputies returning the attack of miners in the dense thickets hundreds of feet in front of them. This photo ...

As I write this, hundreds of people from all across the country are marching in West Virginia as a part of the March on Blair Mountain – a grassroots event to save the historic Blair Mountain, site of ...

Monday, Aug. 25 marked 104 years since the march to Blair Mountain began. The march, and ultimately the battle, were one of the last events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, which got their spark in ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Mingo County is dedicated to preserving the labor history. From the Matewan Massacre to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the museum works to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Virginia Tech lecturer Taulby Edmondson discussed unionization efforts in the West Virginia mining industry that led to a series of armed conflicts ...

For more than a decade, factions have lobbied and lawyered about the fate of Blair Mountain, site of the miners' armed march of 1921. Local activists, preservationists and environmentalists want the ...