Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David "Bud" Morris celebrates his son Landen's first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only ...
A man is dead after a May 20 accident left him injured while performing maintenance work on equipment at the Combs Branch Mine in Perry County. According to a release from the Kentucky Energy and ...
One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it ...
This story was updated with a statement from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. Kentucky did not always comply with federal requirements in its use of grant funding for cleanup of former ...
KENTUCKY (WKYT) - The U.S. Department of the Interior’s database for “known-abandoned mine land” has more than 2,800 entries for the state of Kentucky. The Ohio River Valley Institute estimates more ...
A reclaimed coal mine in Bell County is getting a second chance as a 12,000-acre wildlife preserve.