Kentucky's ever-booming bourbon industry is making its way into the commonwealth's coal country. Brothers Wright Distilling Co. is planning to open in Pike County late next year, and distillers there ...

An unreclaimed mine is photographed in Pike County, Ky., on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] The Department of Government Efficiency has targeted seven Kentucky mine ...

Federal cuts have targeted Kentucky's mine safety offices, terminating leases at seven locations around the state. If lease terminations result in fewer mine safety officials based in Kentucky ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Nineteen Kentucky offices are now listed on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website as part of the agency’s nationwide budget cuts, although their exact ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - After public outcry, the General Services Administration has reversed its decision to close down more than 30 U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration Offices. Several of ...

Barr, the Kentucky Republican whose office has reached out to hers, extended the offer Tuesday to the sponsor of the sweeping Green New Deal that Republicans say would put coal miners out of business.