CAC of Pike County's Keith Pitts received an award from the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian Development for his lifetime of service in the region.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kristina P. Brant, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) On Valentine’s Day 2025, heavy rains ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For some, it was the third time in just four years that their homes had flooded, and ...

The region's most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky's Letcher County, above, as fog settles on Aug. 23, 2019. (Photo by Scott ...

Those living in Appalachia have long been accustomed to the idea there are greater risks to our health here than in many other regions. New research from the American College of Surgeons confirms that ...

Appalachia is this long, diagonal region that stretches from New York state down to Alabama - 400 counties, 25 million people. And the story of Appalachia has been told many times over the decades ...

Sixty years ago, Life photographer John Dominis traveled to eastern Kentucky, where he captured shocking and raw photographs of deprivation—the target of President Lyndon Johnson’s recently announced ...