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Brown went into the mine at 10:00 p.m. that night. But he never came out.
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Elaine Tanner lives with her life partner, Jimmy Hall, at the head of Mill Creek in Letcher County, Kentucky. Jimmy is a sixth-generation Letcher…
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Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer is resigning effective this week, multiple media outlets have reported. The resignation comes days after…
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The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start…
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West Virginia employees of coal operator Blackjewel LLC have received their final paychecks more than two months after the company declared bankruptcy on…
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Kentucky’s attorney general is accusing the state Labor Cabinet of negligence following the bankruptcy of Blackjewel Mining in Harlan County. After the…
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Curtis Cress sat in the gravel beside a railroad track in Harlan County, Kentucky. Tall and thin with a long, black beard, Cress is every bit a coal…
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A 29-year-old eastern Kentucky man was killed Wednesday in a coal mining accident in Harlan County. Hubert Grubbs suffered fatal injuries in a conveyer…
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Citizens in nine southeast Kentucky counties are beginning to assess the impact of widespread weekend flooding. Five inches of rain fell over a 24 hour…
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Kentucky's poet laureate, George Ella Lyon, is collecting poems from each of the state's counties for her "'Where I'm From': A Poetry of Place"…