Appalachian Ohio receive mental and physical healthcare services thanks to the work of volunteers, interns and employees from ...

NPR's Pam Fessler was told that Eastern Kentuckians would be reluctant to talk because they were tired of being depicted as the poster children of... In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The ...

Stephen C. “Steve” Cawood, an Eastern Kentucky lawyer who championed coal miners, clean water and better schools, died Oct.

We have all heard the term “Appalachia” or “Appalachian” — but few know the true origins of the word and how it has evolved ...

The internet has become fascinated with Appalachia's history of ghost stories. As people continue to post and discuss these stories online, the true history is getting lost in the chatter. Appalachia ...

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver loves living in the Appalachian hills of southwestern Virginia. But she says she feels that the region is often misconstrued by mainstream media. Her new book, Demon ...

Majestically arrayed in an ancient blue suit, frayed white shirt and new brown boots, Floyd Handshoe, 51, la bored at a seignorial pace last week, hoeing rocks into potholes in the road. So did half a ...

Gayle Manchin is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, set up to try to improve the economy in a region covering all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, including ...

As a 10th-generation Appalachian, Ivy Brashear sees JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" as a "really one-sided and simple view of the region." In an effort to help broaden people;s view of ...

When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...