When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

Utility advocates take aim at a pair of GOP-backed laws in 2023 and 2024 that put a thumb on the scales in favor of coal.

Stephen C. Cawood, a Pineville lawyer who died at 82, was a lifelong advocate for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Cawood represented people victimized by the coal industry and helped draft key state ...

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — The bodies of a father and son were found inside an abandoned eastern Kentucky coal mine, officials said. Ricky Dixon, 41, and Kevin Dixon, 19, both of Cornettsville, went into the ...