Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A public spat between Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and Democratic vice presidential hopeful Andy Beshear has put ...

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JACKSON, Ky. – Teresa Watkins worked to salvage a few mud-caked belongings from her home on a Breathitt County branch of the Kentucky River after floods slammed her neighborhood July 28 for the second ...

Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal — an extractive mining process that uses explosives to clear forests and scrape soil in order to ...

Federal cuts have targeted Kentucky's mine safety offices, terminating leases at seven locations around the state. If lease terminations result in fewer mine safety officials based in Kentucky ...

Medicaid expansion in Kentucky brought an outsized boost to some of America’s poorest counties beset by disproportionately high rates of chronic disease, disability and opioid abuse. After extending ...

A recent University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study published in The Journal of Rural Health sheds light on Appalachian Kentucky's alarming cancer burden, revealing striking disparities ...

The music festival raises money for drug recovery. Tens of thousands of people made their way to Ashland this past weekend for "Healing Appalachia." The annual music festival raises money for drug ...

A new book, "A Pencil Grows in Kentucky," features poems from young female writers in Appalachia. The project was created by retired professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton to foster a new generation of ...