RUSSELL COUNTY, Va. - Healthcare and pension benefits for retired miners in our area are at risk, but these miners have been rallying behind legislation to save the benefits they were promised ...

Last week, PBS NewsHour ran a story about an unlikely group of Americans caught up in the government budget showdown: coal miners. Across the country, some 22,000 retired union miners (and their ...

David McCloud, a retired miner-turned-preacher from Harts, W.Va., said losing benefits would break a promise made to coal miners decades ago, with the federal government acting as a guarantor.

WASHINGTON – A bill to keep the federal government running faces the very real prospect of stalling amid a fight over retired coal miners. The United Mine Workers of America have been engaged in ...

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA (WJHL) – Many retired miners in our region suffer from Black Lung Disease due to years of inhaling coal dust. A trust fund set up by the federal government has helped these ...

Roughly 100,000 retired coal miners across the U.S. are collecting pensions, but there isn’t enough money left in the system. Some coal miners are planning to rally in Washington D.C. Thursday ...

CHARLESTON, WV (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers say the new congressional spending plan contains a permanent extension of health care benefits for more than 22,000 retired miners and widows whose ...