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

The "Ashland in Autumn" event delighted visitors with mine tours, steam train rides, and live polka music in Schuylkill ...

A project that will demonstrate the conversion of a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky, into a utility-scale 287-MW pumped storage hydroelectric facility has garnered federal backing from the ...

A second worker buried under tons of rubble when a Kentucky coal preparation mine collapsed Tuesday night is dead. “This is a heartbreaking situation and I hope everyone will join Britainy and me in ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House voted Monday to allow the state’s smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training assigned for each underground ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

The Kentucky House passed House Bill 85, allowing smaller coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training required for each underground shift. Supporters said ...

David "Bud" Morris celebrates his son Landen's first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only mine emergency technician on duty, failed to render aid after Bud was ...

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

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has allowed to become law House Bill 196, which will reduce from two to one the number of mine emergency technicians, or METs, who must be present at Kentucky coal mines ...