Those living in Appalachia have long been accustomed to the idea there are greater risks to our health here than in many other regions.

Businesses and buildings across the city of Mullens are devastated after the recent weekend flooding – one well known ...

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

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...

The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and ...

The writers urge citizens to reject paltry offers from Enbridge, a multibillion-dollar Canadian corporation, for property rights-of-way.

Andrew K. Clark ‘s debut novel, Where Dark Things Grow, takes place in a fictionalized version of the Asheville area during ...

Future Generation University is a prominent educational resource within the Wild and Wonderful, that specializes in the ...

It's due to the decline of coal jobs, the decline of rural economies and ... Hochschild visits the heart of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky to share stories of people facing poverty, the loss ...

Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central focus: fighting poverty in rural counties ... “All those jobs they created did not go to Black people,” Clyburn said. “They were white only, in the South ...

Imagine little to no rural representatives in congress making decisions about how to allocate federal money, or rural people working in government offices who are tasked with distributing those funds.

If deportations of undocumented people approach the high end of numbers pledged by President Donald Trump, the impact could trickle down to places like Unicoi County. And with 15% of its 1,975 ...