Kentucky. The move was “a painful decision to have to make but it was necessary to grow this thing and to help create a more stable Appalachian region,” Hatcher said, and “more opportunities ...

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 ...

Over the course of a few days, residents in eastern Kentucky watched as river ... research on rural health and poverty in Appalachia. It’s a complex region often painted in broad brushstrokes ...

Kristin Collins is the Chief Executive Officer of the foundation for Appalachian Kentucky in Hazard, the only nationally ...

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

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 ...

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

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Robert Scheller, landscape ecology professor at North Carolina State University, about the increasing risk for wildfires in southeast and southern Appalachian regions.