Surface coal mining, which includes mountaintop removal mining, has had sprawling impacts on the landscape in Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia.

This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump and the politics of eastern Kentucky. Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans enjoy overwhelming support in rural, white America.

Himler Coal Beauty, Kentucky is one of many former company towns in eastern Kentucky. But it is not an exaggeration to say its history is wholly unique in Appalachian history, according to Dr. Briane ...

Eastern Kentucky was once a solid Democratic stronghold. Host Scott Tong reports from Appalachian Kentucky about how that happened and what role coal mining played.

It won’t be easy: Kentucky is in particularly bad shape. Statewide, coal jobs are at their lowest level since 1927. About 5,700 eastern-Kentucky miners have lost their jobs in the past two years ...

Central Appalachia — and Eastern Kentucky in particular — is running out of time to turn a century of decline into a future worth staying for. Population loss is now the coalfields’ defining ...

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.

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.

Kentucky went from blue to distinctly red in a generation. To explain what happened here, Republican activist Roger Ford takes us around eastern Kentucky.

When bitcoin was on a hot streak, owners of small industrial facilities in Kentucky struck up crypto mining partnerships with Chinese companies. Then things fell apart.