Coal remains essential to KY's energy portfolio. But if the communities that produce the energy can't afford it, the system is out of alignment.

When America mobilized for World War I and again for World War II, coal from our mountains fed the furnaces that forged steel ...

Gov. Andy Beshear is encouraging communities in Kentucky's eastern and western coalfield counties to apply for this year’s Abandoned Mine Lands Economic Revitalization (AMLER) grant funding, expected ...

The requested hikes leave one of America's most impoverished regions paying the highest utility rates in the state.

Barr says the U.S. needs Kentucky coal to fuel the A.I. boom. Congressman Andy Barr was in Eastern Kentucky this week to campaign on coal. The U.S. Senate candidate says coal needs to be the energy ...

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 ...

A sheriff's vehicle blocks a road leading to the area where a rescue operation is underway for two workers trapped inside a collapsed coal preparation plant in Martin County, Kentucky, on Nov. 1, 2023 ...