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 ...

When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

Kentucky poised to be a leader in AI data-center development with firm reinvestments in its struggling coal economy, the congressman says.

Barr says the U.S. needs Kentucky coal to fuel the A.I. boom. Congressman Andy Barr was in Eastern Kentucky this week to campaign on coal. The U.S. Senate candidate says coal needs to be the energy ...

Kentucky's ever-booming bourbon industry is making its way into the commonwealth's coal country. Brothers Wright Distilling Co. is planning to open in Pike County late next year, and distillers there ...

"We're trying to digitize coal," said Rogers, the chief strategy officer of Blockware Solutions, a bitcoin mining giant that is expanding rapidly in eastern Kentucky. Over the past year Rogers, a ...