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 ...

On Valentine’s Day 2025, heavy rains started to fall in parts of rural Appalachia. Over the course of a few days, residents in eastern Kentucky watched as river levels rose and surpassed flood levels.

Appalachia has a legacy of making the most with limited resources, but there's one thing that there's no way to stretch: sleep. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, in partnership with ...

In 2009, Maddie McGarvey first visited 3-year-old Paige Casto and her family in a southeast Ohio town to take photos for a college photography class. Then, for the next 15 years, she returned to ...

Independent reporting you can trust. May was Mental Health Awareness Month, but in Appalachia, mental health isn’t a monthly conversation. Mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the ...

WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance painted a vivid picture of Appalachia in his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” One of rural poverty mired in a substance-abuse epidemic, but also one centered on family ...

Maddie McGarvey has photographed Appalachian Ohio for her entire career. (Photo courtesy of Maddie McGarvey) Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the ...