Introduction In 2016, I proposed in the Daily Yonder an Appalachian Homestead Act—a plan to redistribute land from bankrupt coal companies and absentee ...

I was raised at the foot of the North Carolina mountains. Mounds of earth pushed up, bookmarking spots of creation that ...

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A domestic altercation in Closplint, Harlan County, led to a murder-suicide. The husband shot his wife before shooting himself on the front porch, authorities say ...

A husband and wife were found dead at their home in Harlan County on Wednesday.

Two people are dead in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide in Harlan County, Kentucky.

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — A death investigation is underway after a couple was found dead from a murder-suicide at a Harlan County home, Kentucky State Police report.

Expedited permits are leading to new mines in the West as well. The Department of Interior just approved a land lease for Wyoming’s first new coal mine in 50 years.

The Trump administration is approving coal mines under the guise of an "energy emergency," but it will do little to save a declining industry.

Luzerne County artist Tom Hartz paints miners and breakers on slate from slag heaps of coal mined for more than 100 years.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades is launching a potentially half-billion-dollar effort to extract rare earth metals from the ...