Appalachian Power officials say they were left out of some discussions leading to utility competition legislation filed in this year’s Virginia General Assembly session.

There has been a modest increase in recent years, but there are still far fewer coal jobs in the region than in 2011, and the Appalachian Regional Commission calculated the poverty rate in the county ...

For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump required coming to grips with the role of emotion in ...

Tens of thousands of Appalachian migrants moved to Southwest Ohio starting in the 1940s. The coalition organized to advocate ...

Hazard depicts the opioid crisis ravaging rural America with a raw and unflinching lens. Writer and director Eddie Mensore ...

Customers of Appalachian Power Co., who have been hit repeatedly with higher electricity bills, would be able to switch to ...

On the surface, the new film by Appalachian filmmaker Eddie Mensore could easily be dismissed as just another opioid movie ...

When Tore Olsson was a kid, he loved playing video games. After putting down the controller for 20 years, Olsson fired up a ...

The work was funded by a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission’s annual Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative.

On the surface, the new film by Appalachian filmmaker Eddie Mensore could easily be dismissed as just another opioid movie ...

I worry about poverty. I worry particularly about the rising tide of joblessness in America ... Rates of male non-employment are highest in the eastern heartland which starts in Louisiana and ...

Kentucky is one of several states with projects to attempt to breed and repopulate dwindling populations of hellbenders. A giant salamander typically found in central Appalachia called the hellbender ...