The tradition of coal mining is crucial to the economy and people of Appalachia, but hundreds of miles of mining land have shut down over the years. That’s why one project is giving a former Mingo ...

Trump administration reverses course on plan to close more than 30 mine safety offices, although two in Kentucky still are ...

The seven Mine Safety and Health Administration offices once scheduled to be shuttered include: Madisonville, Barbourville, ...

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

PRESTONSBURG, KY (WOWK) — Seven leases for Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA ... More than 100 active mining permits in the Commonwealth which produce millions of tons of coal each year. In ...

Willie Dodson, the Coal Impacts Program ... the wholesale closure of every mine safety office in eastern Kentucky,” he said. Locations include Barbourville, Prestonsburg, Harlan, Hazard, Beaver ...

Leases for MSHA offices in Barbourville, Prestonsburg ... cuts would affect the agency’s oversight role in Kentucky and Appalachian coal mines, and referred The Courier Journal to the General ...

With a few exceptions, most remaining coal mining in Kentucky consists of small mines, said the committee’s chairman, state Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville. Requiring these mines to have two ...

After years of a friend imploring Pat Tallent to return to his Floyd County roots, the former Kentucky high school ... site on a former strip mine near Prestonsburg. By 1999, the cost of the ...

But some branches, particularly in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, had split into white and Black factions, with leadership positions going only to the former. Coal companies ... I moved to ...

Today, a herd of more than 11,000 rocky mountain elk thrives atop reclaimed coal mines in Eastern Kentucky ... executive director of Prestonsburg Tourism, described the impact of elk as a boost ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—With a federal investigation into technically active but nonproducing “zombie” mines set to begin in March, a citizens law group in Kentucky has found production idled at ...