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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The Lower Price Hill-based council, now known as the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.Now with the later generations of Appalachians emerging in ...

Opinion: In JD Vance's Appalachia, poverty is only a detriment to society when it impacts white people. His exclusion of Black Appalachia is proof.

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.

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.