Whitesburg, Kentucky, was an area once known for coal mining but most of those jobs have dried up. Limited opportunities force many residents to leave, but some are able to find their way back.

An investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist spent years covering Eastern Kentucky for the Louisville Courier-Journal, from the political rivalries to the coal industry. Alan Maimon has ...

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

Imagine living off the grid -- in the mountains, with no computers, no internet, no malls -- no rules. It's your own way of life. That's the premise of the hit show, "Outsiders," back again for Season ...

Appalachia. Appalachia. (Pronounced APP-uh-LATCH-uh, just in case anyone might try to lead you astray with some long vowels.) If that doesn’t sound like the name of a magical wonderland, I don’t know ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Living Carbon, a public benefit company transforming degraded and underutilized land into high quality environmental assets, announced today that ...

In the hunt to understand why some people get certain types of cancer and then have different outcomes, biomedical researchers look at genetic profiles and variables like age, gender, race, and other ...

More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the region. Many of these lines were built in just the past five ...

APPALACHIA is a region as large as all Great Britain and the home of fifteen million Americans. Once, long ago, it was green and rich. For years it has been sick and now it is dying, a charity patient ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – The East Tennessee hills are alive with the sound of music that comes out of them. The Appalachia Sessions are coming to the Bijou Theatre on Monday, December 5.The series is ...

Whitesburg, Kentucky, was an area once known for coal mining but most of those jobs have dried up. Limited opportunities force many residents to leave, but some are able to find their way back. And ...