Sunrise over the Appalachian Mountains. (Stock photo from Getty Images.) The Appalachian region in Ohio and elsewhere is bracing for a big hit as President Donald Trump proposed a 93% cut to funding ...

Nothing better shows how Ohio gets sold to the highest bidder – all nice and legal – than the antics of the state’s Oil and Gas Land Management Commission. The panel, despite overwhelming public ...

Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. Nothing better shows how Ohio gets sold to the highest bidder — all nice and legal, ...

In her novel "Demon Copperhead," author Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of poverty and addiction in contemporary Appalachia. Host Scott Tong caught up with Kingsolver in western Virginia to talk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The region’s most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky’s ...