Stephen C. Cawood, a Pineville lawyer who died at 82, was a lifelong advocate for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Cawood represented people victimized by the coal industry and helped draft key state ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

A more than $1 billion three-county solar project on one of Eastern Kentucky’s former coal mines got the stamp of approval Friday to start construction. In an Aug. 1 order, the Kentucky Public Service ...

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 ...

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — The bodies of a father and son were found inside an abandoned eastern Kentucky coal mine, officials said. Ricky Dixon, 41, and Kevin Dixon, 19, both of Cornettsville, went into the ...