The bill would cut "unnecessary red tape" for the coal mining industry if it becomes law, but it first must pass the House.

The Kentucky Senate on Friday voted 30-to-5 to pass a controversial bill that would benefit the coal industry by making it ...

For the second year, Kentucky lawmakers try to weaken a mine safety law enacted in response to a worker's death in a Harlan ...

Senate Bill 89 would narrow the state’s definition of protected waters to mirror 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...

A Kentucky lawmaker is hoping to limit the definition of “waters of the Commonwealth” protected under anti-pollution laws.

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On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...

On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...

State mining regulators inspected the mine after the accident and did not find any problems with the equipment there. Steve Schafrik, a University of Kentucky associate professor of mining engineering ...