Backroads of Appalachia has been awarded a competitive ARISE (Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies) grant from the Appalachian Regional…
(Update: The death toll has reached 12 from the weekend flooding.) By Mark Maynard Kentucky Today Eastern Kentucky is reeling…
This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy…
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist With J.D. Vance coming on the scene as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, I thought about…
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Many Eastern Kentuckians will see their monthly energy bills increase by around $8 per…
Eastern Kentucky is an ancestrally Democratic region that usually doesn’t vote Democratic, except last month. Gov. Andy Beshear was reelected…
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune columnist The words “broad form deed” are, for many people from Eastern Kentucky, nasty ones. Often…
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Nearly a year after the historic flooding in eastern Kentucky residents of Breathitt, Knott,…
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Foreign-owned crypto mining companies are staking out Eastern Kentucky for cheap electricity, and the…
By Justin Hicks Ohio Valley ReSource Over the past week, Havanna Thacker has transformed a historic high school in Carr…
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Governor Andy Beshear said he expects to call a special session of the General Assembly…
By Steve Flairty NKyTribune Columnist Who can speak most authentically about the catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky? Eastern Kentuckians, of…
The litany of devastation in Eastern Kentucky has a cadence all its own: Quicksand, Bulan, Neon, Hiner, Martin, Fisty, Hueysville,…
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today At least 35 people have been confirmed dead due to devastating flooding that has hit…
By Katie Myers Ohio Valley ReSource The mayor of Blackey stepped down years ago. The city council dwindled down to…
This story has been updated Flash flooding has pounded eastern Kentucky, causing devastating flooding, the full extent of which is…
By Jack Brammer NKyTribune reporter Rocky Adkins, a senior advisor to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and former Democratic floor leader…
When Daniel Boone and early pioneers blazed a trail into the Kentucky wilderness via the Cumberland Gap, they quickly realized…
By Liam Niemeyer Ohio Valley ReSource Howard Whiteman is inching along in his black Toyota Prius, craning his neck to…
Alan Maimon spent five years writing about Eastern Kentucky for the Louisville Courier-Journal’s now defunct Hazard Bureau. In 2000, he…
By Katie Myers Ohio Valley ReSource Bennett Quillen walks through a late August downpour to check on his fall crop…
To those who travel down the Hal Rogers Parkway in southeast Kentucky, one of the most interesting sights you’ll come…
