When John Holbrook first started working as a pipefitter in the early 1990s, jobs were easy to come by in his corner of ...

Much of the story is about coal. Coal is the heartbeat here, something many Kentucky musicians like Merle Travis sing about.

A Kentucky man died while working at a coal mine in Logan County Friday evening, state officials said.Gary Chapman, 33, of ...

A disaster at the Finley Mines on Hurricane Creek in east Kentucky on Dec. 30, 1970 — exactly one year after passage of the ...

UNION COUNTY, Ky. (WEVV) — Friday marks the 35th anniversary of one the nation's worst coal mining disasters. In 1989, 10 men ...

Significant carbon capture projects—at Cane Run 7, PPL Corp.’s 691-MW gas-fired unit in Louisville, Kentucky, and Four ...

Kentucky went from blue to distinctly red in a generation. To explain what happened here, Republican activist Roger Ford ...

A coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia on Friday night, Gov. Jim Justice said. The Republican governor said Gary ...

West Virginia lost another coal miner. Though his home was in South Williamson, Ky., Gary Chapman did his work at the Mountaineer II Mine near Sharples, W.Va. He is the fourth coal miner to have died ...

Coal is the heartbeat here, something many Kentucky musicians like Merle Travis sing about. In this region, just about everyone’s family story includes miners. Listen closely to people talking ...

Jim Justice says a coal miner was killed on the ... of South Williamson, Kentucky, died after being injured at the Mountaineer II Mine near Sharples, West Virginia. Justice expressed his ...