Historian Nola Hadley Torres shares oral histories of Appalachian women who migrated to Cincinnati, OH, after WWII, revealing ...

By mid-January in 2024, about 1,700 aspiring AT thru-hikers had registered for their hikes through the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). The 2025 season is off to a slow start with about 1,200 ...

OpEd: Mr. Vance had virtually nothing to say in “Hillbilly Elegy” about the color of the canaries in coal mines or how Black workers were the last hired and first fired in the American ...

The Appalachian Mountains are full of hill women holding their communities together. They don’t have the resources or support that they need to enact sweeping change. But they find creative ways ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting ...

Republican Heather Hill, a 2026 candidate for Ohio governor, smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting.

My ties to Appalachia are stronger than Mr. Vance’s: my mother was born a century ago into a coal mining family in Harlan County and my grandfathers, father, four uncles, and oldest brother ...

Hill and her husband, Darrin, live on a 100-acre farm in Morgan County's Malta, a village of about 500 people in the rugged hills of southeastern Ohio's Appalachian region.

Mr. Vance says, essentially, “This just should not happen to white people in America.” Many voters agree with Mr. Vance, no matter how cynical the logic or whether a Trump/Vance victory in November ...