Lawyer Stephen Cawood built one of the greatest bodies of work of any Kentuckian to protect Appalachians from the adverse ...

The twin Pond Creek bridges, completed last summer, stand 324 feet high and are the tallest bridges in Kentucky. The Russell ...

Eastern Kentuckians will fill more than 90 open positions for the nuclear reactor firm Framatome this week in Corbin and ...

Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, known for his staunch support for the coal industry and other causes in his Appalachian district, has died after being injured at home last ...

The blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County occurred between midnight and 1 a.m. EDT while a maintenance shift was on duty, said Amy Louviere, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health ...

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 his ...

After devastating floods earlier this year, one of eastern Kentucky’s key shopping centers is rising from the water’s ...

As climate change makes other regions hotter, drier and less livable, we have a chance to make our hills and hollows a place people come to, not leave, writes Jim Branscome. (Photo by Cris ...

FILE - Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, front, gives a speech, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Bruce Schreiner, File) FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, known for his staunch support for the coal industry and other causes in his Appalachian district, has died after being injured at home last ...

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 his ...