Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest program hosted a public health researcher to examine healthcare access in rural communities Jan. 29. Meit said rural ...

Parts of the North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded in July 2022, and again in February 2025. Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images For some, it was the third time in just four ...

Back in the days before child labor laws — and before it became conventional wisdom that no young person could develop proper character without playing two dozen sports, mastering three instruments ...

It’s in rural areas, especially Central Appalachia, that some of the most important efforts to meet formidable national challenges are being conducted. Appalachians have worked for years to help a ...

For some, it was the third time in just four years that their homes had flooded, and the process of disposing of destroyed furniture, cleaning out the muck and starting anew is beginning again. Each ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

A Daily Yonder analysis of FEMA data shows that counties in the rural South might experience the disproportionate consequences of natural disasters. Natural disasters might strike indiscriminately, ...

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 ...

“A 21st-century Homestead Act offers compelling advantages for political leaders…For conservatives, it emphasizes individual responsibility, property ownership, and free market solutions…For ...

JD Vance's 2016 book "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" tells the real-life story of his ...