March 1 (UPI) --The Interior Department has earmarked $74.2 million to clean up abandoned, polluting mines in Kentucky, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The money will be used to address ...

As home prices soar and dreams of ownership slip away for many Americans, one couple decided to stop chasing the market and a new life from the ground up. In spring 2024, Sophie Hilaire Goldie, 37, ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

INEZ, Ky. — One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being demolished collapsed at an abandoned eastern Kentucky mine’s coal ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) -The number of coal mines in Kentucky is on the decline. The State Division of Mine Safety data shows that in 2008 there were 625 licensed mines, including the one in Martin ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- What was once an abandoned space in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood is now a pocket park. A ribbon-cutting is planned this weekend for Beechwood Park. It is located at ...

Gov. Andy Beshear says that two water infrastructure projects have been completed in eastern Kentucky. Beshear said a $1.7 million project in Breathitt County replaced more than a mile of water line ...