The prison has been controversial, with some supporting the prospect for jobs but others raising concerns including mass ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Several Eastern Kentucky counties are under a flood advisory due to heavy rainfall Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.

The North Fork Valley Community Health Center’s (NFVCHC) mobile dental outreach program travels to public elementary schools in Knott County, Perry County, and Letcher County.

Gov. Andy Beshear encouraged Eastern Kentucky flood survivors to apply for recovery housing support through a newly launched ...

Eastern Kentucky's largest utility, Kentucky Power, is proposing to expand its energy efficiency programs for residential and ...

Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan ...

Ex-Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines appeared ... he was accused of shooting his longtime friend eight times. KY Courts Neither side specified the type of evidence that would ...

A former Kentucky sheriff accused of gunning down a judge last year, stunning their tight-knit Appalachian community, appeared remotely from a jail Friday for a court hearing as defense attorneys and ...

Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines ... Stines showed no emotion as he sat quietly behind his lawyers at the eastern Kentucky jail where he's being held. Bartley told the ...