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

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

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 ...

The latest Arlie Hochschild book "Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right" explores how eastern Kentucky — a once-and-still proud place — has endured a sense of damaged pride. It's due to ...

In the 1880s, two groups rushed into the central Appalachian Mountains: industrialists seeking coal, and missionaries seeking moral reform. Both changed the region forever, and their stories were ...

The blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County occurred between midnight and 1 a.m. EDT while a maintenance shift was on duty, said Amy Louviere, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

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