After five years in West Virginia, the world's largest recovery-based music festival is bringing hope to the hills of eastern ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

There are important distinctions in cancer diagnoses and deaths among different regions of Appalachia, with certain areas ...

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...

The prison has been controversial, with some supporting the prospect for jobs but others raising concerns including mass ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates remain substantially higher, especially in certain areas of Central ...

While thousands of Eastern Kentucky residents were without power, cable, Internet and other services for a time during the recent winter storm events, it was business as usual for ...

A prominent benefit concert, which features top music names and benefits Appalachian nonprofit efforts, is relocating to Boyd County, Kentucky. Healing Appalachia, produced by the charity Hope in the ...

Brandon Pennington is tourism director for the city of Harlan and chair of the Kentucky Travel Industry Association. It’s his ...