The mountain bond runs so deep it survives distance, decades, and outsiders getting it wrong.

McDowell County, West Virginia, had nearly 100,000 residents in 1950. Today it has fewer than 17,000. That number — 16,878, ...

Esther Renee Adams, "Mamaw," was laid to rest in her own home. In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, such "country wakes" could last for days. Shelby Lee Adams Esther Renee Adams was born on her ...

I was on a walking tour with Dr. Joseph Fox along Asheville’s Black Cultural Heritage Trail. We stopped in front of the YMI Cultural Center, one of the first Black community centers in the country. We ...

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 ...

Candles in farmhouse windows can shine a long way on dark nights in the Blue Ridge Mountains. That light was especially symbolic at Christmas when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parts of the North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded in July 2022, and again in February 2025. Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington ...

A glass dinner table on a balcony overlooking Appalachian mountains - Cindymurray/Getty Images Appalachia is a mountainous region stretching across the Eastern United States, including all of West ...