A coal miner who says he was fired for enforcing safety standards that slowed production and the sealing of the Upper Big Branch mine is suing Alpha Natural Resources.
Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59.
State troopers will be riding along with some students across West Virginia this week as government agencies try to crack down on the estimated 600 motorists a year who illegally pass stopped school buses.
The West Virginia Attorney General's Office is going to court in an attempt to stop a Georgia company from distributing chemical ingredients used to illegally make designer drugs in the state.
West Virginia officials say voters who wish to cast ballots in May's primary election have until a few more weeks to register or make any changes to their registrations.
A federal judge says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority in revoking permits for what could now become West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine.
West Virginia officials are disappointed that Shell did not choose to locate its chemical processing plant in the state. But they believe it will benefit from the plant's location 12 miles from the border in Pennsylvania.
Hundreds of female inmates at a federal prison in West Virginia are testing a program to bring the quality of entertainment behind bars into the 21st century.
