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 ...

Vice President JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has been criticized by many who feel it is an inaccurate portrayal of ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.

A Westmoreland County judge told an Arnold teen he should look to new Vice President JD Vance for inspiration. Common Pleas Judge Christopher Feliciani said Vance's story portrayed in his book, ...

An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West ...

Betsy Ross Koller, an internationally recognized artist, uses her paintings to fund scholarships for Appalachian students and ...

Percentages: FG .491, FT .684. 3-Point Goals: 9-21, .429 (Davis 4-6, Durugordon 3-6, Blakney 1-4, Pounds 1-4, Johnson 0-1). Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: None.

One family in Bristol, Tenn., lost four daughters – all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years – during the Spanish ...

Smaller hospitals say a little-known government program to funnel more money to charity care is a lifeline in Kentucky — ...