Appalachia News

Posted by JW Randolph , Appalachian Voices at 12:22 PM on August 27, 2008. Appalachian coal is a dead end road.

Hey, read the rules! The number of Appalachian residents living in poverty is expected to fall slightly.

Superintendent Says Band Can Play, but not Ride. Burglars Smash And Grab Smashed windows and a bag full of tobacco products send police on a suspect chase.

If Virginia becomes a swing state in this year's presidential election, Southwest Virginia could determine which way it swings.

Some eastern Kentucky leaders spent the day with southwest Virginia leaders at the Central Appalachian Leadership Forum at the Breaks Interstate Park.

Caves deep in the Appalachians hold clues to prehistoric climate change and century-long droughts that have occurred at least seven times across eastern North America, according to researchers.

Janie Sherman, a Staunton-based certified genealogist whose specialty area is Augusta County, VA, has published a book with Gateway Press, "The Augusta County Earliest Will, 1745 to post 1900." Today's Augusta ...

To say the turnout for the public hearing on the proposed Smith Mountain Project water release protocol was far greater than the event's hosts had expected would be an understatement.

Special To The News-Express It's been called the first biography of the famous patriarch of the feuding Hatfield family, Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, of Hatfield and McCoy Feud fame.

Environmentalists won a temporary victory on Monday as US District Judge Robert Chambers agreed to impose a temporary restraining order on certain Hobet Mining operations in southern West Virginia.

A higher proportion of people in Appalachia abuse prescription painkillers than in the rest of the nation, and the problem is even greater in coal-mining areas such as Eastern Kentucky, according to a federal ...

Researchers commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission reported Tuesday that residents of the impoverished mountain region face more mental health issues than the rest of the country.

Unassuming yet surprisingly potent, the Devil Bat hits like a well-crafted beer buzz at a run-down rent-house garden party.

A state grant will allow 29 homes in Northwest Roanoke to connect to the public sewer, according to a statement from Gov.

Governor Tim Kaine says six Virginia localities are receiving nearly $1.5 million in water quality improvement grants.

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. - A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday that will stop logging on Ison Rock Ridge in Wise County.

Spend the day at Steppin' Out but then head over to Champs for the Steppin' Out After-Party Jerry Garcia Birthday Celebration with the Kind.

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, , a subsidiary of Spectra Energy , today announced a non-binding open season for its Texas Eastern Appalachia to Market expansion program, a proposed expansion to transport ...

As Sidney Saylor Farr was growing up in Bell County's Stoney Fork Hollow, she never heard the word Appalachia.

M any of the poets in "Southern Appalachian Poetry," Marita Garin's new anthology, talk like ghosts.