For decades, Appalachia has been dismissed as a political monolith, written off as a stronghold of conservative values. Yet, ...

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

We’ve been incredibly, incredibly blessed with the ability to increase our investment in workforce development,” Baker said.

While some businesses are working to re-open, others are still waiting for help, hoping to see their open signs back on soon.

When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide swath of the region for the second time in ... when storms brought torrential rain to central ...

By Stephen Smoot Last Thursday, the Region Eight Economic Planning and Development Council held its monthly regular meeting.

“Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law-school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky ... in the region he called his “ancestral home”: Appalachia.

Prosecutors have requested a mental evaluation for a former Kentucky sheriff charged with ... The killing rocked the small Appalachian community of Whitesburg, where residents knew Shawn ...

Fewer field offices could hamper efficient coverage of the region by inspectors ... over recent decades — and in Kentucky and other parts of central Appalachia, one in five coal miners suffer ...