Nestled among the thick trees of the Appalachian Mountains, right on the border with Kentucky and 82 miles from Charleston, the most affordable vacation destination in the US, is a former coal-mining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Graphic from U.S. Census Bureau) McDowell County, West Virginia, had nearly 100,000 residents in 1950. Today it has fewer than 17 ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West Virginia, ...

This week, we’re traveling to summer attractions across Appalachia. Like a bus that sits on a rock at the ...

The Christian Appalachian Project is sending a semi truck of supplies to West Virginia after flash floods killed 2 and ...

When JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” took off in 2016, people started talking to Neema Avashia about it. She grew up in Appalachia. Southern West Virginia, to be more specific, but moved to Boston ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — The heat hasn’t stopped this group of volunteers from putting in the work on several homes ...

Neema Avashia, the author of "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place," weighs in on J.D. Vance's depiction of Appalachia. What this West Virginian author says JD Vance gets ...