Ahead of the 2024 election, Republicans enjoy overwhelming support in rural, white America. But it wasn’t always that way. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky This ...

The latest Arlie Hochschild book "Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right" explores how eastern Kentucky — a once-and-still proud place — has endured a sense of damaged pride. It's due to ...

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) – A coal miner has been killed and two more injured in an apparent wall collapse in an underground eastern Kentucky mine. State officials said the workers were inside a Harlan County ...

David "Bud" Morris celebrates his son Landen's first Christmas in 2005. Five days later, Bud died after a mine owner, the only mine emergency technician on duty, failed to render aid after Bud was ...

After the pandemic and natural disasters in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, two county judge-executives have opted out of ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. — An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his ...

A sign outside an underground mine tour in Harlan County reads: "If you don’t like coal, don’t use electricity.” (Scott Tong/Here & Now) This story is part of our series Asking Appalachia: Coal, Trump ...