Take a haunting look at Alone, Kentucky — an eerie ghost town frozen in time with abandoned buildings and forgotten stories.

For years, cities in Kentucky could be dissolved by a vote of residents or action from a circuit court. But how do you do that if nobody knows a city exists?

Kentucky has a number of so-called ghost cities that were once independently governed but no longer operate as such. Now officials are using a relatively new state law to dissolve them. Justin ...

OpEd: To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal towns and prevent extensive pollution, what if our mines were repurposed as geothermal sites?

Sure, you've heard of Bumble Bee and Tombstone, but Arizona has over 100 ghost towns. Here's what to know about seven abandoned towns.

I went on holiday in Kentucky’s Trump towns – here’s why I think you should too As detainments and deportations cause many travellers to turn away from America, Annabel Grossman journeyed ...

Today, the ghost town of Kentucky Camp remains part of the national forest, which has stabilized four of the five original buildings, including an office, several cabins and an assay building.

Nick Sturgill and Devin Mefford take visitors on tours of the abandoned Portal 31 coal mine in the town of Lynch (Annabel Grossman / The Independent) ...

The Texas ghost towns shaped by extreme weather events serve as historical reminders of nature’s power. These abandoned settlements offer valuable lessons from the past, helping us to ...

I was headed for the Tri-Cities, three towns in southeastern Kentucky close to the border with West Virginia. Cumberland, Benham and Lynch were once thriving coal mining towns, basking in the steel ...