David "Bud" Morris celebrates his son Landen's first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only mine emergency technician on duty, failed to render aid after Bud was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it ...

The Henderson County Mine has ramped up their production.

Reclamation work is scheduled for a former mine in Virginia that is visible from Black Mountain, the highest point in Kentucky, in Harlan Count, seen here on Friday, January 27, 2023 Ryan C. Hermens ...

Senator Mitch McConnell believes Kentuckians will "get over" Medicaid cuts despite potential negative impacts. Proposed cuts could lead to the closure of 35 rural Kentucky hospitals, including five ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.