Armed with bucketfuls of trees, volunteers scampered along a Leslie County mountaintop that looked more like the moon than a mountain. Rocks the size of fists went tumbling as shovels struck earth to ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Heavy rain has once again brought flash floods to eastern Kentucky, a region ...

OpEd: KY can transform abandoned mine sites into assets for data centers, supporting a low-carbon, energy-efficient cooling infrastructure.

Fossil Fuels Drowning Deaths Last Summer From Flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s Coal Country Linked to Poor Strip-Mine Reclamation A social justice group asks the Interior Department to review the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kentucky National Guard soldier looks through debris near Troublesome Creek for flood victims in Fisty, Ky., July 30, 2022.

PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Two people have been arrested after a deadly shooting in Perry County. Kentucky State Police say the situation unfolded along Polly Hollow Road at the site of an abandoned ...

The dream that haunts Christine White is always the same, and though it comes less frequently, it isn’t any less terrifying. The black water comes rushing at the witching hour, barrelling toward her ...

Stephen C. Cawood, a Pineville lawyer who died at 82, was a lifelong advocate for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Cawood represented people victimized by the coal industry and helped draft key state ...