WYTHEVILLE, Virginia — Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph. Interstate 77 comes up out of North Carolina.

If you grew up in Appalachia, this small Kentucky college in the mountains may cover your entire tuition bill, and the way it ...

It depends mostly on where you happen to be standing when the angels of light and darkness pass by.” They wanted a ladder.

Kentucky’s Appalachian mountains offered plenty of turkeys, but getting close enough to one proved far more difficult than simply finding birds. Early encounters included a hen suddenly appearing ...

Flashback Theater Co. (FbTC) presents the Kentucky premiere of Mountain Mamas, a new play by Daryl Lisa Fazio. Drawing ...

From T. Geronimo Johnson’s Atlanta-set crime novel, “The Occidental Book of the Dead,” to Barbara Kingsolver’s intimate love story, “Partita,” fall promises a bounty of books.

Wondering what the hardest climb is in Colorado, Illinois, or West Virginia? We've compiled a list of the most difficult roped routes in the country by state.

Wynonna Judd made a career singing country music hits written by others. Her new album shares the story only she could tell.

F. Scott Fitzgerald visited Thomas Wolfe's mother, Zelda stayed at her boardinghouse, and the mountains attracted generations ...

Her new novel “Partita,” which debuts Tuesday, involves the protagonist’s upbringing on an East Tennessee cattle farm.

The Kentucky songwriter finally returns with Canyon Falls Trailer Band, an opus of an album he describes as "Appalachia Sgt. Pepper" ...