For the second year, Kentucky lawmakers try to weaken a mine safety law enacted in response to a worker's death in a Harlan ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Senate Bill 89 would narrow the state’s definition of protected waters to mirror 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping to limit the definition of “waters of the Commonwealth” protected under anti-pollution laws.

It is a password, an admonition, and a desperate expression of hope among coal ... Mine Workers welfare fund, forced most of the mines in eastern Kentucky to close. For three months a state ...

F RANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House voted Monday to allow the state's smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training assigned for each ...

Supported by By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Jon Cherry Austyn Gaffney and Jon Cherry visited former coal strip mines and once-flooded river valleys in Eastern Kentucky. The wooden cabinets and ...

A bill limiting regulation of water pollution in Kentucky to a weakened federal standard advances from a legislative ...

Two Floyd County man were arrested after leading police on a chase on a snow-covered road, which ended with the discovery of ...