As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

A dozen years ago eastern Kentucky enjoyed reasonable prosperity. Now, with heavy competition from oil and the large, highly mechanized coal mines, the operators of the small mines are squeezed ...

The largest coal producer in the eastern United States will permanently close its Kentucky operation, representatives said. On Nov. 15, Alliance Resource Partners and its subsidiary, Excel Mining ...

Ashley Tackett Laferty, who represents a coal-producing region in eastern Kentucky ... a coal region in western Kentucky. Gooch comes from a coal mining family and previously worked in mines ...

Over several days in late July 2022, complexes of “training” thunderstorms — meaning they came one after another like train cars — rolled through Eastern Kentucky, pouring out a ...