The dream that haunts Christine White is always the same, and though it comes less frequently, it isn’t any less terrifying. The black water comes rushing at the witching hour, barrelling toward her ...

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 ...

Every week, the expressions of love and support pour into Whitesburg, Kentucky’s Mountain Community Radio, WMMT, like messages in a bottle from friends and family to inmates incarcerated in the seven ...

Stephen C. Cawood, a Pineville lawyer who died at 82, was a lifelong advocate for Kentucky's Appalachian region. Cawood represented people victimized by the coal industry and helped draft key state ...

An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly. With coal mining destroying the mountains that he loves, Jim Webb establishes Wiley’s Last Resort, a place for ...

FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Two horses are recovering after being rescued from an abandoned strip mine where 20 horses were found shot and killed in Floyd County. The pregnant mare and her colt were ...