In eastern Kentucky, you'll find the home of country music icon Loretta Lynn as well as museums and parks at the feet of the ...

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 ...

Coal mining is indelibly woven into the fabric of daily life in the mountains of southeast Kentucky, but a decline in the ...

I was a recent graduate of Frontier Nursing Service’s Nurse Midwifery Program. This was in the 1960s in the mountains of Kentucky. We had a small hospital with a doctor and a number of outpost centers ...

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail boasts more than 40 distilleries scattered throughout the middle of the state. But if you venture an hour or two off the eastern edge of that beaten path, there’s even more ...

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 ...

No matter how it happened, the tale of the mountain lion's long trip is unusual, as are the conflicting theories of wildlife specialists. First, the trip: More than 1,200 miles of rolling prairie, ...