More than 8,000 abandoned properties are filled with toxic construction debris hiding under the ground around Kentucky. Gov.

Higher ground communities strain a wastewater treatment plant in Knott County and a drought exacerbated by tourism weighs on ...

March 1 (UPI) --The Interior Department has earmarked $74.2 million to clean up abandoned, polluting mines in Kentucky, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The money will be used to address ...

HISTORY BEHIND US. NEW AT 533, KENTUCKY MEN ARE PRESERVING HISTORY OFFERING A WINDOW INTO THE STATE’S PAST THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY. THEIR SUBJECT ABANDONED PROPERTIES ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH WLKY IS ...

Kentucky will receive almost $104 million in federal funding to help clean up abandoned oil and gas wells around the state, officials said. Kentucky will receive almost $104 million in federal funding ...

BREATHITT COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Stephanie Stratton explains that she lost her Pike County home in 2010 because of the nearby coal mine. She says, "At that point, there was one of two things, either ...

"A large hole had been clawed into the wall" and "feces and dirt was covering the window sills and the ceiling" in the home, according to court records obtained by WLKY Bailey Richards is a ...

Portal 31 mine in Lynch, Kentucky is one of few Kentucky mines that have been repurposed into an engine of economic activity. Meredith Perkins In 1948, over 75,000 Kentuckians worked in coal mines.

If it passes, House Bill 57 would change animal torture from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony in Kentucky. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...