President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting the coal industry in Kentucky and across the country. The order would ease restrictions on mining, leasing and exports ...

Currently in Kentucky, two emergency trained workers are required at mines while they’re producing coal, no matter the size. But Republican politicians claim this disadvantages mine operators ...

The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. Now it's embracing solar energy. Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the ...

A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed ...

It’s quiet there, at the entrance to the Upper Big Branch mine except for the occasional dump truck that lumbers by, belching ...

(WKYT) - The Department of Government Efficiency revealed last week the cancellation of six mine safety office ... We only have 2,545 coal miners left in Eastern Kentucky, after the war on coal ...

Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, ...