You may have heard of the “garbage wars” of the late 1980s and early 1990s and think of them as the past. Private companies ...

West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant winner Ava Johnson, 16, collects small pieces of coal left behind at the former Kay Moor coal town and camp in the New River Gorge National Park and ...

A few years back, I found myself on a train departing White River Junction, Vermont. While the station was not staffed by Amtrak employees, local volunteers assisted passengers. Not surprisingly, many ...

Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once was. But as she makes her way along overgrown railroad tracks near the abandoned Kay Moor mine in the New River Gorge National Park ...