Himlerville, Kentucky circa 1920. Himlerville was the coal camp for the Himler Coal company, a cooperatively owned mining operation in Martin County. Many of Himlerville’s original buildings still ...

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

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

A disaster at the Finley Mines on Hurricane Creek in east Kentucky on Dec. 30, 1970 — exactly one year after passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act was signed — killed 38 miners and ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. -- A team of federal and state investigators on Tuesday entered the underground coal mine in southeastern Kentucky where five miners died in an explosion several days earlier.

RESULTS OF THE FINANCIAL STUDY ARE EXPECTED IN TWO MONTHS. A NEW FEDERAL RULE TAKES EFFECT TODAY TO COMBAT A DEADLY DISEASE ONCE AGAIN ON THE RISE AMONG COAL MINERS. CONGRESSMAN MORGAN MCGARVEY ...

Betty Jean Hall, 78, a Kentucky-born attorney who fought to make coal mining jobs available to women and went on to serve as an administrative judge overseeing the government’s benefits review process ...