Appalachia is one of the most culturally revered regions of the United States. In many ways, it's the region people think about when someone says "Rural America." Despite its cultural prominence ...

A new report from the Appalachian Regional Commission indicates that for the countless rural people who lost loved ones to diseases of despair, the pandemic is still an emergency. Living deep in ...

As people from Appalachia have learned, stereotypes perpetuated by commercial media outlets usually validate the views of urban investors who seek to exploit natural resources that are abundant in ...

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

Why do people have a hard time stopping? We need to answer these questions to ever have a chance of getting a handle on addiction in rural regions like Appalachia where there are problems with ...

But while many people from that generation have ... The boomer shift has caused a sudden population surge in Appalachian areas that were previously rural. It has "brought forth a sort of whiplash ...

And, the author of an upcoming graphic novel about pipeline fighters has a message for people outside the region. You'll hear this story and more this week, Inside Appalachia. January 31 ...

Many Appalachian scholars thought it trafficked ... politics, the media and rural working-class people than anything else. "'Hillbilly Elegy' was so popular at the start, and all of a sudden ...

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