We have a large number of kids that actually come to school to shower because they don’t have running water at home." ...

Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, ...

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. (Scott Olson | ...

When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...

Family feuds are nothing new in politics, but when Vice President-elect JD Vance's distant cousin calls him out for "cosplaying a hillbilly," it's impossible not to pay attention. JD rose to fame with ...

PIKETON — Keith E. Pitts, president and CEO of the Community Action Committee of Pike County (CAC), has been awarded the Marvin J. Huston General’s Award by the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It’s full of untruths, intentionally manipulative stories," said an Appalachian scholar. Here's why the book was so controversial When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his ...