In October 2025, Cecil Roberts will officially retire from his role as president of the United Mine Workers of America. A sixth-generation coal miner, he has led the union for 30 years. Only one man ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Last year, I moved to Kentucky—not to escape the chaos of California, but to build something better. I wanted to be somewhere people still ...

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, fog hovers over a mountaintop as a cut out of a coal miner stands at a memorial to local miners killed on the job in Cumberland, Ky. For over a century, life in Central ...

Congressman Griffith spoke in opposition to the Democrats’ amendment to highlight the devastating impact Democrats’ proposal would have on Appalachian communities, including those in Southwest ...

Anthony Sable has seen West Virginia go through some of its best and worst times. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, near the Appalachian foothills, Sable's father worked in the mines just like his ...

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 ...

The best antidote for politicized nostalgia that hails an imagined idyllic yesteryear full of abundant blue-collar jobs? Taking a good, hard look at how those workers actually lived. "Power & Light," ...

US coal market prices rose slightly in May, despite natural gas prices easing month over month. Higher natural gas prices are expected to improve the economic competitiveness of coal generation ...