A public spat between Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential hopeful Andy Beshear has put Appalachia in the spotlight, with some asking who gets to claim the ...

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 mountain bond runs so deep it survives distance, decades, and outsiders getting it wrong.

Like JD Vance, I am from the great state of Ohio. I knew about the first-term U.S. senator long before Donald Trump announced him as his running mate. Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," piqued my ...

Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the ...

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 ...

Cara Ellis, left, and Sarah Ratliff talk to festival goers at Pikeville Pride’s booth at the Hillbilly Days Festival in Pikeville last April. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com Admittedly, I ...

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 ...