Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease ...

For more than a century, America’s coal industry has powered our homes, forged our steel, and fueled our prosperity. It has ...

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ...

Josh Heupel, set your phone to ring. Turn up the volume. If someone calls from Penn State, answer. Leave behind the Tennessee posse.

It’s never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand. Tincher began his working life in a coal mine in Aflex, Kentucky, as a teenager in ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

The 18-hole Wasioto Winds Golf Course is consistently ranked among Kentucky’s best public courses, and for good reason. Designed by Michael Hurdzan, the course is nestled in the valley floor, with ...

For decades, coal was more than an industry in Pike County, Kentucky. It was a way of life, powering homes, paychecks, and a ...

Forty-five miles southeast of Tucson on the east slope of the Santa Rita Mountains are the Greaterville gold placers, discovered by A. Smith in 1874. The deposit, at 5,280-feet elevation, became the ...

Statewide, production declined 9% from the second quarter of 2024. On a regional scale, production fell nearly 19% in eastern Kentucky and less than 2% in western Kentucky. Employment fell 15% ...