NICHOLAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) – The search and rescue efforts continue for crews in Nicholas County days after a mine worker was trapped in a mine. Crews are still hard at work on Wednesday trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BELVA–Efforts to rescue a coal miner who was missing after a Nicholas County mine flooded last Saturday continued on Veterans Day ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.