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

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership are turning former Appalachian coal mines into clean ... Tennessee, and Kentucky. This marks the second round of clean ...

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 ...

Boone County emergency crews are responding to the scene, on the westbound side of the highway near the exit to KY-8. Boone County dispatchers say I-275 is closed in both directions at this time.

Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader.com Kentucky Senate Bill 89 just passed out of the Natural Resources & Energy Committee. This bill, supported by the state coal industry, has the potential to cause ...

GRAEFENBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - A man is in custody after a barricade situation near a Ky. highway, Kentucky State Police says. It happened on KY HWY 151 near the Anderson and Franklin County line ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

ON THURSDAY MORNING, REPRESENTATIVE LINDSEY BURKE FROM LEXINGTON ANNOUNCED SHE’S INTRODUCING TWO HOUSE BILLS TO COMBAT THE TRIGGER LAW KENTUCKY ENACTED IN 2019 TO BAN MOST ABORTIONS. THE EFFECT ...

"Coal can ignite at pretty low temperatures," said Steve Fluke, Program Manager for the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program ... Courtesy photo Smoke escaping from a fissure near the closed mine. "The ...