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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A public spat between Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential hopeful Andy Beshear has put ...

The Athens Photo Project offers a creative, community-based approach to mental health and recovery in Appalachian Ohio.

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 ...

Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin, a researcher, lecturer, and cultural worker at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and William Isom, director of the Black in Appalachia project at East Tennessee PBS, were ...

JACKSON, KY — The home where Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) spent his summers with his grandparents still stands just outside a tiny town in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Vance has credited this place with ...

Jonathan Webb used to build solar energy projects for the government. Now the 35-year-old runs one of the largest indoor farming operations globally, growing row after row after row of tomatoes. His ...

Three years ago, I wrote about photographer Rich-Joseph Facun’s then-work-in-progress on his newfound home in a region of Appalachia called “Little Cities of Black Diamonds.” He and his family had ...

A year ago, Venus Octavian, then 17, was homeless and spending nights next to a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in eastern Kentucky. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...