A proposed expansion of the Rustic Ridge coal mining operation is drawing fire from environmental advocates and local residents, who say the project threatens to repeat the ...

An environmental group wants the state hearing board to revoke a mining company’s permit to bore underneath the Pennsylvania ...

Mitch McConnell told his colleagues behind closed doors this week that "failure is not an option" when it comes to passing their bill to deeply cut health, nutrition and education programs to fund tax ...

Enticed by cheap energy and friendly zoning laws, crypto mining operations poured into Appalachia. It has not gone well.

Bill Estep is retiring from the Lexington Herald-Leader after 40 years of covering Kentucky’s most important stories from ...

To meet the increasing power demands of our industries and ensure grid reliability, we must embrace a diversified energy ...

Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” is estimated to kick millions of people off Medicaid, causing concern for health care providers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a region especially dependent on ...

CALHOUN, Ky. – Coal production has begun at an underground mine in Western Kentucky. Lexington-based Rhino Resource Partners said Wednesday that coal is being produced at Riveredge Mine in ...

Membership in the United Mine Workers union peaked in 1946, then plummeted as government support waned and the industry waged an all-out war on union mines. Today, a majority of U.S. coal mines ...

Despite the coal industry's decline in recent decades, about 2,000 people still work in Kentucky's eastern coalfield, and an additional 1,300 people work in the western coalfield, according to ...

Despite the coal industry's decline in recent decades, about 2,000 people still work in Kentucky's eastern coalfield, and an additional 1,300 people work in the western coalfield, according to ...