Trump's order to freeze federal loans and grants concerns farmers like Hugh and Jenny Lassen, who grow wild blueberries in ...

The Rural Energy for America Program, an initiative offered through the US Department of Agriculture that provides grants to ...

Affrilachia: Testimonies,” by Chris Aluka Berry sets out to document the Black experience in Appalachia. The book is a ...

Federally funded programs provided both women with a social safety net and employment in one of the nation’s poorest states, ...

Appalachia has a rich history and gorgeous landscapes, but it has also experienced rates of cancer incidence and death ...

Appalachia may be lagging behind the rest of ... Some longstanding issues include higher poverty rates, poorer access to care in rural communities and the aftereffects of coal mining and other ...

More:Ohio is investing $30 million into a rural, Appalachian hospital. Here's why State funding of that size for a hospital is unprecedented in Ohio, not just due to the amount, but to the state ...

In the 1930s, women employed by the Works Progress Administration rode pack horses through the mountains of eastern Kentucky, bringing books to rural ...

For the last year, the two of us have been lucky to talk strategy with more than 130 other rural organizers and volunteer ...

After surviving teen homelessness and domestic violence in West Virginia, 23-year-old Ireland Daugherty was finally feeling ...