He's enrolled in a 12-week program co-sponsored by the Hazard Community ... may see mining as dangerous, backbreaking work, coal is woven into the fabric of life in eastern Kentucky, and jobs ...

JUSTIN HICKS, BYLINE: Brandon Crum's radiology clinic is in a former Walmart in Pikeville, Ky. (SOUNDBITE OF PHONE RINGING) HICKS: Each day, former coal miners ... attorney in Hazard, he's very ...

At a public meeting in Hazard earlier this month, Gov. Matt Bevin complained that there are too many federal mining inspectors at coal mines in Kentucky. Lexington mine-safety attorney Tony ...

Locations include Barbourville, Prestonsburg, Harlan, Hazard, Beaver Dam and ... We only have 2,545 coal miners left in ...

A list of the 31 coal mine fatalities so far this year ... Feb. 16: One killed in rock fall near Hazard, Ky. Feb. 17: One killed in accident in Maryland. March 29: One killed after ...

But a spokesperson for the federal labor department, which oversees that federal agency, told the Associated Press last week ...

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 ...

Instead, regulations centered on coal dust, a separate hazard created by crushing or ... A coal dust examiner who worked for a Kentucky mining company was sentenced to six months in prison last ...

Roger Tiley Roger took this photograph of young Brandy and her mother in a trip to Hazard, Kentucky ... has been taking pictures of miners, attitudes towards coal have shifted and there has ...