Buffalo Creek

Today is the 49th anniversary of one of the worst mining catastrophes in West Virginia history, the Buffalo Creek Disaster. More than 100 people died in southern West Virginia when a dam failed.

On February 26, 1972, a coal mining dam collapsed at the head of Buffalo Creek in Logan County. Over the next three hours, 132-million gallons of black…

Earlier this month in West Virginia, a CSX train derailed, causing giant fireballs to stretch hundreds of feet into the air and one home to be destroyed.…

West Virginia's 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster is being remembered in a mural.Canadian artist Kevin Ledo began work on the mural Tuesday. His canvas is the…

The site of a 1972 disaster along Logan County's Buffalo Creek is having new life breathed into it. Buffalo Creek is rapidly becoming one of southern West…