Kentucky’s utility regulator has granted permission to investor-owned utility Kentucky Power to build a replacement cooling tower and partially demolish an aging existing tower at a coal-fired power ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is sending specialized teams to St. Clair County to look at a possible ...

After years of speculation and rumor, the Kemmerer coal mine in southwest Wyoming is set to close at the end of 2029, ...

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (FOX 56) — Attorneys for former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines have appealed a court order requiring a second mental evaluation. Stines is accused of fatally shooting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — Letcher County school leaders announced on Tuesday morning that elementary and middle school students ...

Why are people interested in deep-sea mining? The deep sea holds large quantities of mineral deposits. Some of them exist in potato-sized clumps on the seafloor called “polymetallic nodules,” which ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — Letcher County school leaders announced on Tuesday morning that elementary and middle school students in the district were being sent home due to a water outage in the ...

Allen Lester Halcomb’s first shower was one he remembered for the rest of his life. He and a high school buddy, Doyle Crase, had discovered a large miners’ bathhouse at Lynch. Neither boy had ever ...

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has just greenlit an expansion of the largest coal mine project in the state’s history. The decision to expand Yancoal and Glencore’s Hunter Valley ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — There's not doubt that a loss of mining jobs are contributing to a decline in population across most of West Virginia. Now, the community of Ashford is losing its coal ...