Advocates are concerned funding cuts proposed by the Trump administration could eliminate some forms of disability services, including all University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.

Public anger is growing over rising electricity prices nationwide. In West Virginia, Appalachian Power customers have been paying hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden costs.

In the aftermath of a raid at a Louisiana racetrack, Kentucky's equine community is worried about what increased immigration enforcement could mean for the industry's workforce.

Lately there’s been a lot of splashy economic news about Kentucky with promises of new manufacturing jobs at major companies and politicians are lining up to take credit for a promise of economic prosperity.

In February, flooding swept through Central Appalachia, killing at least 27 people across Kentucky and West Virginia and necessitating water rescues in Virginia and Tennessee. Six months after the flood people in southern West Virginia are still on a slow path to recovery.

An estimated 400,000 people have been impacted by Alpha-Gal syndrome across the U.S.

The tech industry is increasingly eyeing rural communities to warehouse servers for cryptocurrency mining and data storage. In a town in rural Tennessee, locals banded together to push back on one such project.

A federal limit on silica dust to protect miners from black lung is likely to be delayed in court again.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin told Chemours to comply with federal limits on the discharge of PFAS, or forever chemicals, from its Washington Works plant.

The Trump administration has cut staff by more than 24% at the National Park Service since January. Republicans in Congress are now proposing another round of cuts as part of a budget bill.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s mobile black lung clinic sat for weeks behind the NIOSH office in Morgantown.

Homeless service providers across Kentucky say new laws and increased enforcement has driven homeless Kentuckians into hiding.