The people. The food. The sports teams. The outdoors. The markets. The sunsets. The seasons. All these and more make us ...

Loaded with gifts packed by its Jacksonville employees, the CSX Santa Train and CEO Joe Hinrichs delivered joy in Kentucky, ...

The Museum of Appalachia is ready to share the word about a fun-filled year of events in 2025. A living history museum — a pioneer mountain farm-village — was founded in 1969 by John Rice Irwin. The ...

The quintessential Christmas cookie tray often includes peanut butter blossoms with the Hershey Kiss in the center, classic ...

Conservation activists are gearing up for a final attempt to slow down or stop efforts to develop a wooded area into housing ...

Despite Missouri’s two dateline cities of St. Louis and Kansas City and northwest Arkansas’ shift from farm trucks to fancy thanks to Wamart-infused money, the Ozarks is still largely a rural place ...

Bri Johnson’s ambition is hard to miss. The 20-year-old is studying to be a medical assistant and will soon start applying ...

In Black Appalachia, a small, 200-year-old community of descendants of enslaved people, Junaluska, is struggling after ...

The Rev. William Barber, the prominent Black spiritual leader who supported Kamala Harris, suggests a way forward for ...

BOONE, N.C. - Cross-stitched Bible verses decorate the wood-paneled living room walls in a small, historic piece of Black ...

Life expectancy in the USA varies by more than 20 years depending on an individual's race and ethnicity and where they live.

America isn't one unified whole but rather a mosaic of lived experiences. Researchers identify Ten Americas, each defined by a complex web of race, geography, and income, where life expectancy, a ...