WVU’s Mine Rescue Team took second overall at the 2026 North American University Mine Rescue Competition in Sudbury, Ontario, and won the Confined Space Challenge.

Local, state, and federal agencies continue working around the clock with Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., to locate a missing miner at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County, where flooding ...

The West Virginia University Mine Rescue Team is continuing its tradition of excellence on the international stage.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Governor Patrick Morrisey says another pump has been added at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County as rescue efforts continue rescue a missing miner. Morrisey told reporters ...

LOGAN, W.Va. (WOWK) – Hundreds of coal miners from five states are competing in a coal mine rescue competition at Chief Logan State Park. The miners competing came from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, ...

(AP) - Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia native who was part of the rescue attempt at the Rolling Thunder mine in Nicholas County last year said it was the first time that kind of search had ever been ...