Senate GOP candidate Andy Barr has proposed regulatory changes to increase coal production in Kentucky to meet the growing ...

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.

At the historic Portal 31 coal mine in Lynch, Barr said coal remains essential to America’s future and national security.

Steve Sanders, a legal champion for Eastern Kentucky’s coal miners and the environment, died Saturday in Lexington.

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 ...

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. -- A team of federal and state investigators on Tuesday entered the underground coal mine in southeastern Kentucky where five miners died in an explosion several days earlier.