What does it take to prepare a small Appalachian city to host one of the best teams in the world? For starters, a locked-down ...

As someone originally from Appalachia who grew up in Western North Carolina, I recognize the warning signs when I see them ...

What happens to a person’s mental health when they spend years feeling unheard, unsafe, dismissed, or forced to justify their ...

As summer begins and routines shift, many parents find themselves wondering how to keep their children engaged, learning and ...

A 65-year-old woman has been getting winded on her morning walks and feeling more fatigued than usual. Both reach for their ...

Jing Dong, a U.S. citizen after immigrating from China, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the quintuple fatal crash early Friday morning, State Police in ...

Mast General Store in Waynesville will donate 20% of its sales to Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy in honor of Land Trust Day on Saturday, June 6. Land trust representatives will be onsite ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and soprano Renée Fleming about their collaborative project and album, "The Fiddle and The Drum," which celebrates Appalachian folk music.

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other ...

It’s a tough decision that workers are facing at various companies. Microsoft and NPR are two of the latest big firms to ...

Lee University’s Dr. Alexander Steffanell has released his fourth book, “Cosmogonies and Ancestral Spirituality in Abya Yala, ...

A "whites-only" development in northeast Arkansas called "Return to the Land" is facing a lawsuit from a woman who claims her ...