Ebertfest continued with a screening of “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a documentary about the strike of coal miners in Kentucky.

Dozens of mine safety field offices in Kentucky and across the country would close under a proposal by the federal Department ...

Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County ... to stop his bleeding, Kentucky lawmakers on Thursday ...

Looney Ridge, a surface mine, is visible from Black Mountain in Harlan County, Ky., on Wednesday, May 5, 2024. A&G Coal Corporation agreed in January 2023 to finish reclaiming the site by Aug. 31 ...

Locations include Barbourville, Prestonsburg, Harlan, Hazard ... We only have 2,545 coal miners left in Eastern Kentucky, ...

Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...

During the 1930s coal miners’ families often suffered from serious hunger to the point of starvation. A June 1, 1976, article by Bill Bishop in the magazine Facing South described ...

The prospect of shutting down mine safety offices in Kentucky coal country — while refusing to communicate about what that will mean for mine safety — is cruel and callous. It makes no sense ...

(CNN)-- The federal government, in an action that it says is the first of its kind, filed a lawsuit Wednesday to close a Kentucky coal mine until its owner can make it safe for workers. The Mine ...

Promising to end the “war on beautiful, clean coal,” President Trump signed executive orders to buoy the industry. But energy ...