FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House voted Monday to allow the state’s smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of miners with emergency medical training assigned for each underground ...

LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A Kentucky man died while working at a coal mine in Logan County Friday evening, state officials said. Gary Chapman, 33, of South Williamson sustained fatal injuries while ...

Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans enjoy overwhelming support in rural, white America. But it wasn’t always that way. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky This ...

A project that will demonstrate the conversion of a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky, into a utility-scale 287-MW pumped storage hydroelectric facility has garnered federal backing from the ...

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.

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because the first aid available in the mine was inadequate to stop ...

Ramaco Resources today said Martin van Wyk has agreed to join Ramaco as senior vice president of critical minerals processing ...

LONDON, Ky. (WYMT) - An Eastern Kentucky coal operator pleaded guilty to withholding more than $22 million in federal income ...

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 ...

FILE - The Kentucky Capitol is seen, Jan. 14, 2020, in Frankfort, Ky. The Kentucky House voted Monday, March 11, 2024, to allow the state's smallest coal mining operations to reduce the number of ...

John Thomas Quintrell withheld taxes of up to $22 million over a period of more than six years, according to his federal plea ...