The mountain bond runs so deep it survives distance, decades, and outsiders getting it wrong.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The region’s most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky’s ...

The history of a poor farm in the Appalachian Mountains in Washington County, Virginia ...

Two conservative think tanks have called for the Kentucky legislature to stop spending money for a program they think is too ...

The sick and poor in Appalachia are flocking to free health clinics. They've been left out of the health care debate in Washington. At a recent clinic in southwestern Virginia, hundreds came for ...

List of entries -- List of primary documents -- Introduction -- Entries : A-Z -- Epilogue : great society at 50 -- Primary documents Entries : Affirmative action ; African American Civil Rights ...

“A 21st-century Homestead Act offers compelling advantages for political leaders…For conservatives, it emphasizes individual responsibility, property ownership, and free market solutions…For ...

JACKSON, Ky. — Shirley Howard’s feet splashed into nearly a foot of water when she stepped out of bed on a summer morning last July amid a torrential rainfall. A devastating flood swallowing up ...

Poverty has fallen across most Appalachian states, but coalfield poverty rates are consistently nearly double the national rate of 12.4%. In many counties in Eastern Kentucky, poverty is double ...