Tucked away in the rolling hills of Lewis County sits Weston, West Virginia – a small town miracle where retirees have cracked the code to making their Social Security dollars perform financial ...

If you can work anywhere in the U.S., these affordable locales should be at the top of your list. Each offers municipal ...

Winter has a way of pushing even the best intentions aside, especially when fresh produce feels scarce and comfort food calls ...

The demise of the coal industry left much of Appalachia in economic tatters, with lost jobs, spoiled water, and depopulated ...

Tucked between the rolling Appalachian Mountains with the Potomac River winding through its heart, Cumberland, Maryland, exists as a delightful anomaly in today’s housing market. A place where your ...

After moving from West Virginia to Miami in South Florida a few years ago, I've fallen in love with the great weather and ...

Republicans treat the ACA as a political enemy, but folk in eastern Kentucky who can't afford the rising premiums will be the ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

Pinski comes to the Herald-Leader from the Louisville Courier-Journal, where she also covered state politics. Her work for ...

That light was especially symbolic at Christmas when settlers in frontier Appalachia — many of them Scot-Irish — faced hard ...

High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to ...