For decades, coal was more than an industry in Pike County, Kentucky. It was a way of life, powering homes, paychecks, and a ...

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 ...

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