Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, ...

When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...

Cawood was unafraid to challenge the region’s powerful coal industry as an attorney and one-term state legislator.

If you wanted to make a movie about the pain and progress of Kentucky’s Appalachian coalfield in the last 60 years, a key ...

H.R. 1 will devastate Medicaid, but Kentucky can protect thousands of residents, particularly those at highest risk, while ...

Family feuds are nothing new in politics, but when Vice President-elect JD Vance's distant cousin calls him out for "cosplaying a hillbilly," it's impossible not to pay attention. JD rose to fame with ...

Gayle Manchin is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, set up to try to improve the economy in a region covering all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, including ...

Sometimes you just have to give the devil his due. That’s what I’m about to do for Trump’s new vice- presidential pick, J. D. Vance. In his best-seller memoir “Hillbilly Elegy, Vance pretty much nails ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Mike Hurley had a great opportunity: He could multiply sales and staff by converting his metal-stamping business from one that made brackets for the automotive industry into a ...

Appalachia is this long, diagonal region that stretches from New York state down to Alabama - 400 counties, 25 million people. And the story of Appalachia has been told many times over the decades ...

"It’s full of untruths, intentionally manipulative stories," said an Appalachian scholar. Here's why the book was so controversial When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his ...