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

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell told his colleagues behind closed doors this week that "failure is not an option" when it comes to passing their bill to deeply cut health, nutrition and education ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — About a dozen Kentucky coal miners remained on train tracks Tuesday, saying they haven't been paid for producing the coal in the train cars. The tracks lead from Quest Energy in Pike ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of Kentucky coal miners who blocked a railroad track for three days over unpaid wages have ended their protest, claiming victory with their paychecks. Miners and their ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Some Kentucky coal miners and their families are standing on train tracks to prevent a train loaded with coal from leaving. They say they worked since Dec. 16 without being paid. The ...

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

A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR Mine safety is under attack. In the ...

President Donald Trump and Republicans are seeking a coal revival, but the lone Democrat from coal-producing Kentucky isn’t having it. Morgan McGarvey, the lone congressional Democrat from the ...

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 ...

All over eastern Kentucky, you see cars and pickup trucks with black license plates proclaiming the owner is a "friend of coal." Even though the license plates are all over, it's getting harder to ...

There was no way Micheal McGuire was going to miss his 3-year-old son's first trip to see the University of Kentucky men's basketball team in person, even if it meant showing up to the arena covered ...