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West Virginia has experienced its fair share of droughts, but there was one time where almost the entire state was bone dry ...
The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 ...
Journalist and social-justice advocate Tom Bethell died April 10 at the age of 86. This article is from The Mountain Eagle, ...
Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...
While regulatory agents and the West Virginia Legislature have worked to create solutions for the water quality crisis facing the Mountain State, those working at public service districts are facing a ...
It has been almost two months since flooding devastated West Virginia's southern coalfields ... of these floods are going to become greater and greater as the level of the creek bed rises or the river ...
A clean-up process has begun at Sazerac’s Buffalo Trace Bourbon distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, following a flood that shut the site for over ... in place for Owensboro and Hopkinsville in the west ...
LESS THAN A WEEK AGO, THE ICONIC BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY WAS SEVERAL FEET UNDER WATER. HUNDREDS OF WORKERS ARE NOW PICKING UP DEBRIS AND WASHING OUT THE REMAINING FLOOD WATERS. IT’S THE SAME ...
More than six weeks after lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump for support of a Major Disaster Declaration in Southwest Virginia, formal approval has been obtained. The declaration is in ...
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Federal assistance will be made available to Virginia to help with recovery ... and President Donald Trump approved the major disaster declaration on Wednesday.
FEMA maps identify ~365,000 buildings in high-risk flood zones across the three states First Street Foundation estimates ~950,000 properties face substantial flood risk, 2.5x higher Insurance ...