Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

Kentucky fell to the nation's No. 7 coal producer in 2024, according to the federal government's annual coal report. Kentucky produced 24.3 million tons last year, down 14% from 2023. Wyoming and West ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Officials say as part of President Donald J. Trump’s America First Energy Agenda, the Department of the Interior announced the availability of nearly $725 million in fiscal ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - The U.S. Department of the Interior’s database for “known-abandoned mine land” has more than 2,800 entries for the state of Kentucky. The Ohio River Valley Institute estimates more ...

David "Bud" Morris celebrates his son Landen's first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only mine emergency technician on duty, failed to render aid after Bud was ...

Kentucky poised to be a leader in AI data-center development with firm reinvestments in its struggling coal economy, the congressman says.