Appalachia News

Taking off on a motorcycle, plus packing a pen and notebook, Blacksburg, Va., resident explores The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail in a book called "Harmonic Highways" . Subtitled "Exploring Virginia's Crooked Road," this adventure and travel book stops in town after town, from Franklin County to the Kentucky border, as Abraham makes ... (more)

McCoys skirmish has flared up are not in the Appalachians, where the battle dragged out over decades near the West Virginia/Kentucky border.

This undated photo shows Wayne Winkler, past president of the Melungeon Heritage Association, in Johnson City, Tenn.

Even 150 years later, no one can say for sure what started the bloody feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky.

For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons.

Pat Carver will present "This Old Hat - Women of American History," a one-woman performance that brings to life women in history who helped shape ... Stratford Knights of Columbus will hold a roast beef dinner Thursday May 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the hall, 2252 Main St.

Five of them boarded a coal barge in the Kanahwa River with a banner that read " Coal leaves, cancer stays ," and then locked their bodies to the barge.

While you may not recognize Sean Dunne 's name, there's a good chance you've seen some of his short documentaries online.

Motorists who are involved in accidents and other incidents because of drunken or reckless driving may have to start paying the town of Appalachia for police department expenses incurred while responding.

Clinch Mountain Music Fest is gearing up for its seventh-annual celebration of mountain music in Scott County, Virginia, on Saturday, June 9, 2012.

Appalachia is not a very politically important region for President Obama in the 2012 election.

After serving her country as a major in the U.S. Army for 22 years, tending to injured soldiers as a case manager in other parts of the country, registered nurse Marilyn Mullens is now leading a group of her fellow Appalachian women to the West Virginia state capitol on Memorial Day to protest the growing humanitarian crisis of mountaintop removal ... (more)

Coal mining opponents increasingly cite a series of recent studies that draw a link between mining and poor public health, but not everyone is convinced of their validity.

Program A.C.T.I.V.E. , funded through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, is a five-year study designed to test whether behavioral depression treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy and aerobic exercise results in improvements in depression, diabetes and cardiovascular risk outcomes in adults with Type 2 ... (more)

Program A.C.T.I.V.E. , funded through the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, is a five-year study designed to test whether behavioral depression treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy and aerobic exercise results in improvements in depression, diabetes and cardiovascular risk outcomes in adults with Type 2 ... (more)

Supercells and tornadoes are the first priority of any storm chase in the Great Plains.

A bridge removal project just outside Norton will finally happen this summer. The Virginia Department of Transportation held a pre-construction conference Wednesday regarding the project.

Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station scientists shows that the impacts of recent outbreaks of southern pine beetle further degraded shortleaf pine-hardwood forest ecosystems in the southern Appalachian region.

In the interest of transparency, it should be noted that Evangeline Crittenden is Stina Sieg's friend.

A Walk your camera PhotographerA Stacy Kranitz has been traveling to Appalachia for a project called " Regression to the Mean ," in which she explores whether stereotypes accurately represent a place and its people.