DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

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.

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

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

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 ...

The Gray Fossil Site was once an ancient sinkhole lake surrounded by a dense forest of hickory, oak and pine trees, ...

In the aftermath of the recent catastrophic flooding in Eastern Kentucky, Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR) has established the Eastern Kentucky Flood Recovery Resource Hub to provide support for ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky ...