The miners have agreed to suspend open protests ... Every week several mines are blown up, and just recently a coal operator's home in Hazard, Ky., was dynamited. Rumors spread quickly and are ...

Federal inspectors conducted more than 300 safety inspections at coal mines in Harlan County over a recent 14 month-period, ...

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

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting the coal industry in Kentucky and across the country ...

Leases for MSHA offices in Barbourville, Prestonsburg, Hazard and Harlan were ... preparation plants or office jobs in Kentucky's coal industry. "If the mine safety enforcement arm of the ...

Andy Beshear has allowed to become law House Bill 196, which will reduce from two to one the number of mine emergency technicians, or METs, who must be present at Kentucky coal mines when there ...

The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. Now it's embracing solar energy. Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the ...

Coal employment rebounded from 2022 to 2023, rising 4.2% to 45,476. West Virginia employed the most miners at 14,000, ...

Federal inspectors conducted more than 300 safety inspections at coal mines in Harlan County over a recent 14 month-period, ...