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 ...

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

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

The world’s largest recovery-based music festival and one of the most beloved events in Appalachia will bring hope to Eastern Kentucky this year. The 2025 ...

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

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 ...

Backroads of Appalachia is a non-profit organization working to bring folks to Eastern Kentucky through motor sports.

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