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.

A photo of a coal miner at a Kentucky elementary school's homecoming went viral, capturing the hearts of many with its ...

The armed conflict between coal miners and coal mine owners was triggered by the owners’ decision to replace private labor, i.e., the miners, with contracted convict laborers furnished by the ...

A look at the under-the-radar Big South Fork recreation region, an Appalachian region drawing more outdoor visitors and some ...

Popularized in 1955 by country singer Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons” offers a glimpse into the stark realities of a coal miner working in the mines of Rosewood, Kentucky. Ford’s version reached ...

Federal judge rules the Trump administration cannot withhold FEMA grants to help states prepare for natural disasters, ...

Central Virginia  Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly & Co. and Merck & Co. have committed a cumulative $120 million ...

Kentucky Power is reprising its application for state approval of long-term investment in a 54-year-old West Virginia coal-fired power plant that could add to growing concern over increasingly high ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. — An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his ...

After Oakland, Calif., reneged on a contract allowing coal shipments, a Kentucky company went under. Courts say the city may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. By Soumya Karlamangla ...

GRAND FORKS — It took 6 minutes, 41 seconds for UND to score its first points against Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday night at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center. The Fighting Hawks were trailing 15-0 ...