fewer than 3,900 Kentuckians can find work in coal mines today, and Kentucky’s formerly company-owned coal towns are largely abandoned. Sometimes, abandoned mines can find new life as tourist ...

Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited. Rumors spread quickly and are embellished extensively in these small coal towns ...

Kentucky (Bluegrass Plains Solar Project). EKPC also plans to invest more than $2 billion in order to build around 2,000 MW of new generation, and to convert around 1,700 MW of existing coal-based ...

Still, the law reduced the environmental damage of coal mining, which was probably worse in Kentucky than anywhere else and included a severance tax that financed the reclamation of abandoned ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – A $444 million plan to build a new federal prison in a sensitive region of Appalachia ravaged by coal-mining operations drew a lawsuit Monday from 21 inmates. Expected to house a ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Perhaps no place is more qualified to portray the realities of life in a coal mine than Benham, Kentucky. Once a coal camp, this tiny eastern Kentucky ...