Appalachian Kentucky's greatest contribution to the commonwealth is not from its wealth of natural resources — coal, timber, gas and water — but by its people. Eastern Kentucky has substantially aided ...

In the late 1700s, settlers were just starting to explore the land we today call Kentucky. To get there, they'd take the Wilderness Road across the Cumberland River at a shallow point just past a gap ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – A proposal in the state legislature to let all-terrain vehicles use the Pine Mountain Trail would have “catastrophic consequences” on the hiking route in southeastern Kentucky ...

If you had come to the amphitheater on Pine Mountain on Memorial Day weekend a year ago you would have found something missing. The green cove deep in the heart of Appalachia would be empty, missing ...

OpEd: Folks in Eastern Kentucky built this country with our hands, our backs, and our stubborn belief in a better future ...

After years of a friend imploring Pat Tallent to return to his Floyd County roots, the former Kentucky high school basketball star, business executive and high-level amateur golfer had done just that.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) -Clean-up crews in western Kentucky's devastated communities on Tuesday ramped up their Herculean task of carting away mountains of debris left by last week's killer tornadoes ...

PARIS, Ky. (AP) - An examination of a mountain lion killed by a Kentucky Fish and Wildlife official has found that it was a 125-pound male that appeared to be young and healthy. But Fish and Wildlife ...