Abandoned coal mines had left waterways acidic and rusty orange. Local residents are cleaning them up, and recovering rare ...

When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, ...

The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded more than $7.4 million to "Backroads of Appalachia." The eastern Kentucky ...

Cliff Drouet is a forester in the Office of Surface Mining in Lexington. In an interview with WEKU's Eastern Standard, he ...

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Researchers working to prevent those deaths have ...

As West Virginia celebrates its history and birthday, the town of Madison is celebrating the Mountain State’s strong ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died.

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Federal officials have released a final report on the investigation of a miner death that occurred earlier this year in ...

As American energy companies decrease their coal production, many wonder what comes next for the communities left behind.

FARMINGTON, N.M. – President Trump recently signed an executive order to try and reinvigorate coal mining in the U.S.. The Four Corners Region is home to the third-largest coal producer in the ...