A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting coal, they’re creating a community forest.

US Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) have announced funding with the hopes to breathe new ...

State regulators are accepting public comment as they review an application to reopen Nederland mine with a history of ...

A 1.4 million-square-foot logistics park is one step closer to materializing in Mayfield and Archbald. Mayfield Borough ...

The Minerals Commission on Tuesday handed over two reclaimed illegal mining sites to Kotokyi and Gyeaware near Twifo Praso in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa District of the Central Region.A total of 68.03 ...

Taylor and the state Department of Environmental Protection plan to use $265,000-plus in federal funding to tear down a ...

The slow pace of mine closure is a clear disregard of both environmental protection and the well-being of communities—the ...

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 ...

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

OSMRE’s mine land reclamation efforts saw a major boost from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and Kentucky has received millions of dollars from the program annually to address its many ...