Early returns from the Central Kentucky district could indicate what kind of election night the GOP is going to have.

Eastern Kentucky coal country is filled with people competing for nonexistent jobs, tied to the area by family and unable to sell their homes even if they want to leave. People such as 50-year-old ...

Hundreds of former coal miners may lose their most direct path to recovering wages and benefits they say they were owed after an Eastern Kentucky coal operator laid them off without notice earlier ...

Former employees of a now-bankrupt Eastern Kentucky coal mining operation are suing the company for failing to provide adequate notice before laying off about 300 workers late last month. A Virginia ...

Coal is mined from a mountainside at a strip mine operation on Aug. 24, 2019, near Pikeville, Ky. Scott Olson Getty Images Two executives with deep ties to the coal industry have been nominated to ...