Minutes after a widow emotionally testified about losing her 29-year-old husband in a deadly 2005 coal mine accident in Harlan County because ... “There’s been a war on Kentucky coal for ...

Federal inspectors conducted more than 300 safety inspections at coal mines in Harlan County over a recent 14 month-period, ...

Harlan County, Ky., has a long history with two dirty businesses: coal and the Democratic party. As with much of Appalachia, Kentucky’s politics are more complicated than often is understood.

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the ...