In communist Cuba, where priests were once persecuted, churches are acting as a lifeline for the needy during a severe ...

No matter what a state offers in terms of natural beauty, work and social opportunities, tax and economic policy — as ...

Since its launch, Ballad Health’s Appalachian Highlands Care Network has coordinated more than $121 million in donated care for uninsured patients and enrolled more than 12,000 participants. For every ...

For most of the 20th century, the story of Eastern Kentucky’s population loss was a story about young people leaving. The ...

Clinical insomnia prevalence reaches 65% in a rural Appalachian cohort, far exceeding national estimates, and is associated ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a ...

McDowell County, West Virginia, had nearly 100,000 residents in 1950. Today it has fewer than 17,000. That number — 16,878, ...

Poor Farms in the Appalachian Mountains explained ...

AEP names Brian Abraham president and chief operating officer of subsidiary Appalachian Power. Abraham currently serves as chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jim Justice. He will join the company April 13.

Author Steve Carpenter with his sister-in-law, Gayle Alderfer Fisher, on the AT along the Blue Ridge Parkway. A Harrisonburg man has released a book that takes readers to the Appalachian Trail where ...

BAINBRIDGE — After a cold winter where the fields were filled with feet of snow, the people of southern Ohio are eager for spring and to get outside and enjoy nature. Those at the recently reopened ...