On the eastern edge of Kentucky in the Appalachian Mountains sit three tiny communities tucked into stunning mountain terrain. While these towns were once home to booming coal mining operations, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mountaintop near Cumberland, Kentucky, remains scarred after it was strip mined for coal. Many mining companies walked away ...

A former surface mine in Pike County, in Eastern Kentucky, had not been fully reclaimed in December 2023 even though there had been no mining at the site in several years. Appalachian Voices A mining ...