The 19-year-old plays the bass drum in the Morehead State University marching band, and his late father loved playing the ...

A new report says hundreds of surface-mined coal sites across Eastern Kentucky have not been fully reclaimed as quickly as ...

Growing up along the Harlan-Letcher county line in Eastern Kentucky, Landen Morris often heard from family that he reminded ...

A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed ...

Kentucky’s top environmental official says she has “grave concerns” about a controversial bill that would allow more water pollution around the state on behalf of the coal industry and other business ...

Eastern Kentucky coal mining counties show some of the heaviest reliance on private wells that use groundwater, according to the state map. Supporters of the Senate bill say it will help the coal ...

On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky ... lost with the decline of coal. Federal prison construction has boomed in central Appalachia as mining has faltered, with 8 of ...