Politicians have long used coal miners as props. Yet federal policies have done little to help them, and some have even made ...

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to prevent the closing of ...

Coal miners continue to fuel everything from the cutting-edge manufacturing jobs and data centers of the future to the lights over our kitchen tables. As attorneys general from Kentucky and West ...

The U.S. coal industry has been in a steep decline for decades, and President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed ...

Promising to end the “war on beautiful, clean coal,” President Trump signed executive orders to buoy the industry. But energy ...

Mining is an important part of American history, but not one that many people get to explore in person. This spot in Kentucky ...

What they say is it doesn't feel like the people making these cuts actually had any idea who we are, what we did, or maybe ...

Hopes that Donald Trump's executive orders will revive the coal industry have been tempered by the administration's cuts to mine safety programs.

West Virginia employed the most miners at 14,000, followed by Kentucky at 5,000. About half of the nation’s 560 coal mines are located in West Virginia (165) and Kentucky (112). Despite having ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.