Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central ...

“Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.” It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late July, two years ago in rural Pike County, Kentucky, and rain had been pouring for days. Overnight, it got heavier ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest program hosted a public health researcher to ...

Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI ...

Appalachia may be largely poor, as Vance writes, but three quarters of the rural counties in the mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia have communities that help children in poor families earn and ...

“We going to be alright down here,” he said. As of Tuesday night, hundreds in Spencer and Bullitt Counties were without power. Crews from Blue Grass Energy (BGE) were out in the area of Poverty Hollow ...