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 ...

In eastern Kentucky, however, where the coal rarely comes in veins ... successfully conduct a country-wide strike. Many of his followers are retired miners, and splits have occured among the ...

Andy Beshear has allowed to become law House Bill 196, which will reduce from two to one the number of mine emergency technicians, or METs, who must be present at Kentucky coal mines when there ...

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Tomorrow John Sheppard will speak about how the miners organised and his personal experiences as an activist during the strike at Armthorpe, one of the most active and militant NUM branches in the ...

One day last week a coal miner long out ... He smiled at the miner in a kindly way. He knew that miners were hard up after a more than five months’ strike and he particularly wanted this man ...

Exactly 40 years ago today, coal miners in Kent ... The 1984-1985 strike - one of the biggest and bitterest in UK history - ended in defeat for the miners. Kent's mines - Tilmanstone, Snowdown ...