One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.

In a country better known for industrial farming, highly processed food and suspiciously long-lasting bread, Chuck Childers rises before dawn and trudges off to operate one of America's oldest…

Up in the Mountains of Tucker County, Red Spruce Trees are getting a helping hand by taking others out of the way.

By Emily Blevins The research is clear: when it comes to health and well-being, nurture often trumps nature. Where you live and work, your community’s economic makeup and social connectedness, […]

Folkways Reporter Andrea “River” Peterson explored how “Gravity House” attractions keep luring new fans with vintage kitsch.

In the 2020s Appalachia saw a surge of young domestic migrants driven by cheaper housing, adding 726k+ newcomers and reversing population decline.

Long before West Virginia became a state, Jenny Wiley vanished into the wilderness. More than 200 years later, her story echoes in the mountains.

Though the majority of data centers are located in urban or suburban areas, rural communities face unique challenges in the data center development landscape.

Plus: Community meals in Norton, and a public hearing on data centers in Scott County.

Mike Costello and Amy Dawson have built their lives around a simple idea: The food of Appalachia is worth preserving, sharing, and celebrating.

The Kentucky author, activist died in his hometown in Henry County.

Appalachia is made of students, struggle and survival. Local newspapers are not only necessary in the region but they have a significant role in serving local residents.

On this West Virginia Morning, a new book, “The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America’s Eastern Wilderness,” looks at the process to reintroduce large game to parts of Appalachia.

Journey includes 30 cities and 7,000 miles in nine months.

Appalachian gas producers look likely to spend this autumn doing exactly what they did last autumn: turning down the taps. Regional storage is fat, in-basin prices are stuck near $1.70, and the…

As data center proposals spring up in communities across Kentucky, residents want more answers about their would-be neighbors from developers and their own public officials.

About 300 former employees sued in March, seeking to recover 60 days of wages and benefits they say Clintwood JOD LLC should have paid them under federal labor law.

The Keystone Research Center and ReImagine Appalachia are reporting that a recent fall in clean energy investments in Appalachia has dramatically impacted

On this West Virginia Morning, a new book, “The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America’s Eastern Wilderness,” looks at the process to reintroduce large game to parts of Appalachia.

BSU President Dr. Darrin Martin outlines how higher education, industry, and government must collaborate to keep technical talent in Southern West Virginia.

This week, a new report finds the number of black lung cases is at its highest since the 1970s. The human cost is high. Also, the author of a new book says reintroducing nearly extinct animals back…

A Mellon Foundation-backed initiative is opening applications across Central Appalachia, with grants up to $350,000 for community-led projects.

The Appalachians are not one range but the worn remains of at least four, stacked over more than a billion years. Research says a drifting hot zone in the mantle holds them up.

Walking through Noah Marr's apartment is like walking along the aisles of a Blockbuster.

With new research showing that black lung disease among Appalachian coal miners has reached an almost 50-year high, advocates are demanding federal regulations be enforced.

In Appalachia, it’s not hard to notice where the mountains seem to be disappearing beneath an emerald sea. Kudzu pours down hillsides, drapes the pines and rolls over barns, fences and telephone…

This week, a Japanese Shinto garden took root in southwestern Virginia because of family connections spanning geography and generations. Also, in Whitesburg, Kentucky, a new mosaic uses recovered…

Miners working in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia who've spent at least 25 years underground have the worst rates of black lung disease.

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Much of Appalachia's food history was never written for a national audience. It survives in community cookbooks, church cookbooks, extension publications, local histories, family recipe collections, agricultural bulletins, small regional publications, and books that have been out of print for decades. Some exist in only a handful of libraries or on the shelves of people who may not realize what they possess.

Disasters weaken support systems that take years to rebuild, at the same time people caught in them are under extraordinary financial and psychological stress.

A town near Asheville, North Carolina, appears to be the edge of this expanding territory.

Conservationists need $1 million to save Murray Farm, a beloved Appalachian Trail refuge in Westtown.

Deep in the cold, clear headwaters of Appalachia, biologists are searching for a fish that has called the mountains home long before West Virginia was a state.

Soon in #Appalachia the pawpaws will be dropping ( ripe ones will pick themselves 😉 ). #Papaya and #pawpaw may sound like cousins, but botanically they aren't even invited to the same family reunion. The pawpaw was actually named after the papaya. #Papaw are not botanically related to either but can eat of the first two. #AppalachianFoodways 

A year-long opportunity for individuals with bold ideas to address challenges in their communities—especially those who have challenges accessing traditional leadership programs, funding, or networks.

My husband Doug fought hard against black lung for more than 15 years before passing away. After years in the mines, he was diagnosed with black lung after a company

Water shutoffs are a hidden public health crisis. But here's how journalists can shine more light on this issue in their coverage area.

Rural Appalachia has long been shaped by coal. For generations, Appalachian coal powered the nation’s industries and sustained local communities. Today, many of those communities face coal’s…

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