Park visitors wanting to get a taste of the Appalachian Trail can hop on the famous footpath at Newfound Gap for an 8-mile ...

During the year that ended in October, about 9%, of Appalachian’s residential customers experienced a disconnection.

East Tennessee State University researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

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

What is most shameful is not Vice President Vance’s successful exploitation of my home and my university — rather, it is what he has done with the acclaim.

However, rates of cancer incidence and death are going down, if slowly, in Appalachia. Rates of new cases in Appalachia have ...

Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma, who died Saturday aged 95, was revered for leading his country to independence from ...

An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West ...

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

US Vice President JD Vance, who once described himself as a 'Scots Irish Hillbilly, won praise for his 2017 TedTalk where he ...

The mine shut down years ago, but the site, near the town of ... with a 24% poverty rate, believe the prison will replace ...