Last week, President Trump announced that America is getting back in the steel business. Not in Pittsburgh or Allentown, where steel is encoded into their DNA, but in Iowa.

It’s been 50 years since the release of “Harlan County USA,” the Academy Award-winning film from director Barbara Kopple that shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community. Its echoes…

The Year I Carried You    Bees drowsed in the pear blossoms,                tulip poplars blazed green-gold…

Barbara Kingsolver always said she didn't have writer's block. But he admits he felt discouraged as he approached his latest novel, “Partita.” In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager for the Open Book with Jenna podcast, Kingsolver said he wasn't quite sure how he would follow up his 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Demon Copperhead," an Appalachia-set retelling of "David Copperfield."

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The technology company Meta will invest billions of dollars for a proposed Mason County hyperscale data center but will also receive a 40-year tax break on local property taxes, according to a tentati...

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging. At the same time, the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners’ exposure to the dust associat...

ASHE COUNTY — Art in Appalachia goes beyond murals, Bluegrass music, and artisan wares.

A review of Silas House’s latest novel, an epic Appalachian romance called “The Tulip Poplars.”

Join us for the Roanoke stop on Virginia’s March for a Moratorium — a two-week series of events across the Commonwealth calling for a statewide pause on new data center development.

Appalachian stories of the strange, uncanny, and fantastic are out in the world today.

Beyond 'Justified': defining one of the most compelling traditions in contemporary Appalachian literature.

Partita follows a young Appalachian woman with the chops to make it as a classical pianist. It was somewhat inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's love of classical music and her restrictive hand condition.

While navigating the backbone of Appalachia, make room in your plans for the unplanned

There was a time when the sound of a farm waking up in the morning did not always mean the day would end safely. Before tractors had enclosed cabs, before machines came with guards and warning labels…

Inside Appalachia tells the stories of our people, and how they live today. The show is an audio tour of our rich history, food, music and culture.Listen Sundays at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. on WVPB…

Oct. 15 marks 50 years since the premiere of "Harlan County USA." The Academy Award-winning documentary shined a light on an eastern Kentucky coal mining community and their fight for a union…

The Catawba people—yeh is-WAH h’reh, “People of the River”—have deep roots in the Carolina Piedmont. Their foodways included farming, fishing, and hunting, with corn at the center of community life. Today, the Catawba Nation is bringing kus iswq, a treasured corn once nearly lost from cultivation, back home. This map offers an approximate view of Catawba ancestral homelands.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we recognize the Monacan people, whose ancestral homelands include Virginia’s Piedmont and Blue Ridge. Monacan foodways drew on both gardens and forests: corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers, alongside hunted game and gathered nuts and fruits. This is a story of deep knowledge of place—and of a living Monacan community that remains connected to its homeland. Citizens of the Nation are descended from Virginia and North Carolina Eastern Siouan cultural and linguistic groups, and our ancestral territory includes Virginia west of the fall line of the rivers, sections of southeastern West Virginia, and portions of northern North Carolina. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Monacan #AppalachianFoodways #IndigenousFoodways #VirginiaHistory

In a nation that invented the likes of the frozen TV dinner, some farmers are winding back the clock with technology that would be recognisable to farmers two millennia ago.

A cross-sectional analysis of the federal NPPES registry found that 65.5 percent of Appalachian counties have no dermatologist, with the most economically distressed counties almost entirely devoid of

This!! An incredibly clear, concise, firm, direct citizen’s case against data centers out of Lexington, Kentucky. Can Katie Dapkus speak at every city council and statehouse meeting every time this...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In most parts of the United States, a hot dog is a simple meal topped with a handful of condiments. In West Virginia, it is one of the

Gov. Andy Beshear announced a record investment from Appalachian Regional Commission to Eastern Kentucky.

Mountain Association announced in a statement it was awarded $2 million by the Appalachian Regional Commission in September for its new project: Strong Foundations: Fortifying the Building Blocks of E...

Wolly Bears or the Farmer’s Almanac ? A COLUMN By Kathryn Ross, Recently I received notification that on October 15, NOAA’s National Weather Service will announce in a media teleconference, […]

May the Lord love ye Esther Wray who, in 1947, published the "Old-Time Recipes from the Nu Wray Inn" in Burnsville NC. It's only 32 pages and it has some great recipes including the very last one in the book: "How to cook a husband". @nuwrayhotel still has great food like Black Eyed Pea Hummus, BBQ Lion's Mane and Top Floor Pot Roast..