Despite growing recognition of the health risks that extreme heat poses, much of the focus has been on urban heat islands.

Kentucky’s 2014 Medicaid expansion improved health care and drug treatment in some of America’s poorest counties. Now, the state braces for cuts.

Archer Sullivan incorporates a wide range of characters and their differing perspectives in debut novel “The Witch’s Orchard.” ...

Barbara Kingsolver doesn't write bad books. Nevertheless, this is a ranking of every full-length novel the author has ever ...

USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm (scientific name: Strongyloides stercoralis) in South Carolina in two different studies. Their research, which was published in The American Journal ...

HAZARD, Kentucky – The road to Mike Caudill’s salvation runs alongside a wooded creek, winding through Appalachian hillsides dripping with Kudzu, past a Baptist church and a country gas station before ...

​ Trader Joe’s donates 100% of its unsold products everyday — it donated 98 million pounds of food last year alone. In 2024, the then-579 stores nationwide donated the tens of millions of pounds of ...

If you ask me, Kentucky’s most beloved foods often feel like ideas scribbled down in the middle of a hunger dream. A stew ...

Severe flooding swept through the small community of Dante, Virginia, on July 18. Homes and roadways were washed out and emergency crews completed 36 rescues. As flood waters receded, community ...

A sudden freeze on nearly $7 billion in federal education funding left school districts across the US scrambling, exposing the fragility of budgets that rely heavily on Washington. In Ashe County, ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A remarkable fall foliage season is predicted across the Appalachian Mountains, according to East Tennessee State University. “The majority of the greater Tri-Cities metro ...