President Donald Trump said that a US naval blockade against Iran could last months, leading oil prices Wednesday to spike to ...

The city’s rapid expansion brought new jobs and investment, but decades of low wages and limited access to education and ...

Before she was the Queen of Country Music and a superstar, Dolly Parton was living a humble life in Appalachia. Born in ...

Poynter contest honors journalism excellence across 12 categories, from local accountability to climate change to First ...

A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph.

From the rolling hills of the Great Smoky Mountains to the magnificent views of the Blue Ridge valleys…there’s something so ...

The agency tasked with waging that war was called the Office of Economic Opportunity, not the Office of Economic Handouts, ...

A broad analysis of community data from across the United States reveals that local economic conditions are strongly linked ...

Keeping with the theme of last week’s story of people living in Appalachia, which others find a little unsettling, are the tales of feral people.

The county has long been the poster-child for Kentucky’s economically distressed rural water and sewer systems.

On May 29, 1961, Alderson and Chloe Muncy of Paynesville, West Virginia, became the first recipients of food stamps. It was a ...

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