The demise of the coal industry left much of Appalachia in economic tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water, and depopulated ...

A new report from Invest Appalachia, a self-described social investment fund, looks at ways to bring economic development to Central Appalachia as climate change increasingly determines where ...

Republicans treat the ACA as a political enemy, but folk in eastern Kentucky who can't afford the rising premiums will be the ...

This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell ...

Back in the days before child labor laws — and before it became conventional wisdom that no young person could develop proper character without playing two dozen sports, mastering three instruments ...

The Health Wagon, a free and charitable clinic, began with Sister Bernie, who came to the Appalachian region more than 30 years ago at the request of the Catholic Richmond Diocese to treat the poor ...

In rural Appalachian areas of Tennessee and Kentucky, Josh Abbotoy operates a real estate company called Ridgerunner. And he ...

The healthcare experience varies widely across the U.S., but few places feel the challenges around cost, quality and access to care as acutely as residents of rural America. Geographically removed ...

It’s an issue all across Appalachia. Not only are incidents of heart disease higher in Appalachia compared to the rest of the US, but there are also higher rates within rural areas versus more metro ...

That light was especially symbolic at Christmas when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scot-Irish — faced hard ...

During the same conversation all first-year students find themselves in, state follows directly after name. Students, myself included, wait expectantly for one of four common answers: Pennsylvania, ...

A friend asked what I thought about the recent "dust up," as she called it, at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Ky., deep in the Appalachian hills. I replied that I was so unsure that ...