Himlerville, Kentucky circa 1920. Himlerville was the coal camp for the Himler Coal company, a cooperatively owned mining operation in Martin County. Many of Himlerville’s original buildings still ...

Sep. 21—(StatePoint) Kentucky is known the world over for its bourbon, horse racing and its jaw-dropping scenery, however on a deeper level there is so much more to the Bluegrass State. Literally.

Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans enjoy overwhelming support in rural, white America. But it wasn’t always that way. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky This ...

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.

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

Lawyer Stephen Cawood built one of the greatest bodies of work of any Kentuckian to protect Appalachians from the adverse ...

Stephen C. “Steve” Cawood, an Eastern Kentucky lawyer who championed coal miners, clean water and better schools, died Oct.