MATEWAN, W.Va. (AP) — The bullet holes in the brick wall of a former post office serve as a reminder of how Appalachian coal miners fought to improve the lives of workers a century ago. Ten people ...

In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America launched a major campaign to organize the non-union coalfields of southern West Virginia. Along the West Virginia-Kentucky line, some 3,000 miners ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. -- The bullet holes in the brick wall of a former post office serve as a reminder of how Appalachian coal miners fought to improve the lives of workers a century ago. Ten people were ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the Matewan massacre, in which Mingo County officials and detectives with Baldwin-Felts Detectives Inc. engaged in a conflict that would lead ...

MANY READERS of Socialist Worker will have seen the excellent John Sayles film Matewan, about a group of miners in West Virginia who go on strike against the coal bosses in the early 1920s. In the ...

A house in Nitro caught fire Sunday morning, prompting an investigation, firefighters said. House destroyed by fire in Johnson County, Ky. A house in Johnson County, Ky., was deemed a total loss after ...

As the Artemis II crew splashed down safely into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, the work of several facilities here in West Virginia helped guide it safely on its Multiple people transported after ...

The Spring 2020 issue of GOLDENSEAL is now available for purchase at select retailers or by calling the GOLDENSEAL office. GOLDENESEAL, West Virginia’s magazine of traditional life since 1975, is ...

CHARLESTON - A new museum dedicated to the Matewan Massacre and other labor struggles in West Virginia's southern coalfields will promote history that has been overlooked, a member of the museum's ...

The fight to unionize America’s coal industry culminated in a cataclysmic clash in 1921 between 10,000 Appalachian coal miners and 3,000 law enforcement and civilian coal supporters. The Battle of ...

In this Tuesday, May 12, 2020, photo a historical sign stands outside a former post office in Matewan, W.Va. On May 19, 1920, a group of miners, who were led by a local police chief, and detectives ...