Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

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 ...

Kentucky charged "unallowable costs" to federal grants for abandoned coal mine land reclamation, an audit found.

Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...