OWENSBORO, Ky. (WEHT) — Coal mining communities in western Kentucky may soon get some much-needed economic relief as a new program aimed at helping counties replace revenue makes its way to western ...

This story is courtesy of the Kentucky Lantern, a project of States Newsroom. At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 21—(StatePoint) Kentucky is known the world over for its bourbon, horse racing and its jaw-dropping scenery, however on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mountaintop near Cumberland, Kentucky, remains scarred after it was strip mined in search of coal. Many mining companies walked ...

OpEd: KY can transform abandoned mine sites into assets for data centers, supporting a low-carbon, energy-efficient cooling infrastructure.

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 ...

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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 ...

In March 1976, two explosions over two days rocked the Scotia coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, killing 26 men. Fifty years ...

(StatePoint) Kentucky is known the world over for its bourbon, horse racing and its jaw-dropping scenery, however on a deeper level there is so much more to the Bluegrass State. Literally. Much of the ...