Appalachia

CEDIK’s Shane Barton and “One Harlan County’s” Colby Kirk on efforts to support Eastern Kentucky downtowns during the pandemic - and beyond | Author Bobi…

Charles Wayne Stanley ran underground mining machines for some 20 years, cutting coal from beneath the hills where Virginia meets Kentucky along the…

“Hello,” the call began. “This is a prepaid debit call from an inmate at the Virginia Department of Corrections.”Madison Buchanan, a 19-year-old college…

On a recent sunny weekday, Bill Currey proudly walks among 30 neatly stacked, brightly colored plastic kayaks. Birds chirp merrily, and the soothing…

It’s a sweltering hot Monday in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and the kitchen at Community Agricultural Nutritional Enterprises, or CANE, is buzzing with…

Lexington restaurateur Ouita Michel on how she is helping laid-off employees cope with the coronavirus crisis. | Those devices, our minds: latest…

U.S. Forest Service district biologist Shane Jones stands on an overlook high up on West Virginia’s Cheat Mountain. Behind him lush, red spruce trees…

A view of a future of cross-border collaboration among the communities of Eastern Kentucky | Reclaiming forests destroyed by surface mining and mountain…

A new report shows Appalachian counties in Kentucky saw a decline in employment growth at the same time other states in Appalachia saw an increase. The…

The Whippoorwill Festival is bringing more than 75 workshops to Beattyville July 19-21.The workshops range from homesteading and natural medicine, to…