On Valentine’s Day 2025, heavy rains started to fall in parts of rural Appalachia. Over the course of a few days, residents ...

Chelsea White-Hoglen, a community organizer in Haywood County, North Carolina, has been helping coordinate runs to eastern ...

Cancer incidence and mortality rates are declining in Appalachia, but they are still significantly higher than among non-Appalachian residents.

It just tickles me to see these young people learning," said Missy Sexton, July 2022 flood survivor. "These are skills ...

An innovative approach to delivering essential health resources to rural Kentuckians has demonstrated the potential of using ...

A new report says hundreds of surface-mined coal sites across Eastern Kentucky have not been fully reclaimed as quickly as ...

EASTERN KENTUCKY (WYMT) - Kentucky lawmakers continue to focus on Kentucky flood survivors, some even calling it one of the ...

One of Kentucky’s essential non-profit organizations was invited to the state capitol on Tuesday to celebrate a milestone.

“Honey, I come with $120,000 worth of law-school debt and a cemetery plot on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky,” he ... called his “ancestral home”: Appalachia. In advance of the 2024 ...

Ed Lafferty, an IT coordinator with CAP, spent most of the day sifting through the destruction at his parents' house in Floyd ...