The Latest Breaking News from West Virginia

A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust

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Bob Huggins has claimed through an attorney that he did not actually resign from West Virginia as had been reported and plans to coach at the school during the upcoming college basketball season

There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

Teachers are citing West Virginia v. Barnette to protect their right not to be compelled to say something they disagree with.

Increasing number of workers in once profitable mining industry now employed in tourism in a stunning corner of Appalachia

Is the longstanding deferred action policy a major question?

ST. GEORGE, Utah — When I was a kid in West Virginia, my friends and I would play in a sandbox with Tonka trucks and Matchbox cars. Six decades later, not much has changed.

State supreme courts issued 392 opinions from June 12-25. The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia led the field with 82 opinions issued, followed by Kentucky with 31 and Texas (supreme court) with 20. The last two weeks’ 392 opinions account for 12% of the year-to-date total of 3,408.…