Journalist and social-justice advocate Tom Bethell died April 10 at the age of 86. This article is from The Mountain Eagle, ...

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

“If we have a disaster and they closed down ... operations in West Virginia and Kentucky, which have nearly half of the nation’s coal mines. Under the second Trump administration, the impact ...

A series of federal cutbacks has brought one of the United States’ longest-standing coal miner health programmes to an abrupt ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

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

OpEd: Kentucky residents who care about the welfare of working miners should ask Congressman Hal Rogers what he plans to do to keep regional MSHA offices open, and to keep miners safe.

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers praises President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost the coal industry, call's coal ...

President Donald Trump took to the White House podium to boost one of his favorite energy sources. “We’re ending Joe Biden’s ...

A literacy advocate who led an effort to bring a Dolly Parton Imagination Library to Montgomery County and a venerable local historian of the Prices Fork area were honored Thursday ...