Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

Lawyer Stephen Cawood built one of the greatest bodies of work of any Kentuckian to protect Appalachians from the adverse ...

Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans enjoy overwhelming support in rural, white America. But it wasn’t always that way. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky This ...

The Justice Department is investigating an alleged Russian disinformation campaign targeting the 2024 election. Bloomberg Business's Jeff Stone talks with us about that and other attempts at election ...

A few decades ago, Jim Booth sensed he might need to think about business beyond his two eastern-Kentucky coal mines, so he started a building-supply company, invested in real estate and began ...

Cawood was unafraid to challenge the region’s powerful coal industry as an attorney and one-term state legislator.

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha ...

A more than $1 billion three-county solar project on one of Eastern Kentucky’s former coal mines got the stamp of approval Friday to start construction. In an Aug. 1 order, the Kentucky Public Service ...