Mountain Citizen News Today

A new emergency shelter is being planned for Martin County.  A report in the Mountain Citizen said the health department’s Eric Mills made the announcement ...

Kentucky’s new Attorney General Russell Coleman is right when he says prevention is the weak link in the long-running war on drugs.

The massive concrete and steel structure is part of the Pontiki mining complex owned by Oklahoma-based Alliance Resource Partners L.P. (ARLP), the second-largest coal producer in the United States.

Paula Daniels was at the bottom of the hill Tuesday night after an 11-story coal sorting structure collapsed, leaving her husband and another man trapped.

The owner of a collapsed structure where a worker died and another is trapped has a connection to the bankrupt coal company that sparked a miners blockade.

A second man was missing after an 11-story building, which was being dismantled, fell.

At least one person has died after a coal plant slated for demolition collapsed on Tuesday night.

Sixty-year-old Wallace Johnson of Prestonsburg is being charged with theft by deception after he was stopped and questioned by the Martin County Sheri...

PRESTONSBURG — During the Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR) Conference held last week in Pikeville, it was announced that Floyd County and Prestonsburg were awarded a grant of $3 million

A railroad referendum, safe burning, student council elections and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.