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From Appalachia to Texas and Louisiana, new environmental justice reports highlight a community approach to climate justice.

The writer took home the top prize for her Charles Dickens-inspired novel Demon Copperhead. By Prudence Wade.

Activists to gather in Washington to demand Joe Biden ‘reclaim his climate legacy’ by blocking 300-mile Mountain Valley pipeline

Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner Award.

The 22 stories in Sidle Creek charm, surprise, and convey a deep love of the people and place — the Appalachian plateau of western Pennsylvania — that author Jolene McIlwain has long called home.

From exploitation to fighting back, the home planet of "The Mandalorian" has a lot in common with my home

PITTSBURGH — In these first sunny, wonderfully balmy days of spring, nothing hits the spot — or nose — quite like ramps.

The Biden administration wants to give a boost to the fossil fuel "energy communities" of coal country

An Appalachian woman decided to start a podcast about whether a local road death was an accident or murder. After 23 episodes and growing momentum, she publicly changed her mind about the case — creating a true crime furor. Sheila Flynn speaks to the documentarian who was by Emily Nestor’s…

Jessie Wilkerson is a history chair at the University of West Virginia. She said her interest in women’s history dates back to childhood.

Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was born on March 3, 1923, in Stony Fork, North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but his music is as influential now – more than a decade after his 2012 death – as at any time during his long career. During that time he was…