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

Cawood was unafraid to challenge the region’s powerful coal industry as an attorney and one-term state legislator.

A more than $1 billion three-county solar project on one of Eastern Kentucky's former coal mines got the stamp of approval Friday to start construction. In an Aug. 1 order, the Kentucky Public Service ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell told his colleagues behind closed doors this week that "failure is not an option" when it comes to passing their bill to deeply cut health, nutrition and education ...

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

In the 1880s, two groups rushed into the central Appalachian Mountains: industrialists seeking coal, and missionaries seeking moral reform. Both changed the region forever, and their stories were ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the author of the controversial Green New Deal, represents the Bronx and Queens, but says her she has great empathy for areas like Appalachia that are struggling. She ...

President Donald Trump and Republicans are seeking a coal revival, but the lone Democrat from coal-producing Kentucky isn’t having it. Morgan McGarvey, the lone congressional Democrat from the ...