LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - After public outcry, the General Services Administration has reversed its decision to close down more ...

If there’s one Congressional district where the Medicaid cuts resonate in the country, this is it,” the potential Democratic ...

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 ...

Signal Peak Mine opponents have asked the nation’s top surface mine enforcement agency and the U.S. attorney for Montana to pause activity at the southcentral Montana coal operation until it can ...

James River Coal Co. received federal bankruptcy court approval Thursday to sell its idled McCoy Elkhorn mine complex in eastern Kentucky to initial bidders after no competing offers surfaced.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — Knife River Corp. is selling its coal mines to a Colorado company, divesting itself of a business the company has been in for more than 80 years. Westmoreland Coal Co. is ...