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 ...

The family cemetery in Breathitt County where J.D. Vance’s grandparents and other ancestors were laid to rest, a place he evoked in a recent speech. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Kevin Nance) JACKSON, ...

Appalachian Kentucky's greatest contribution to the commonwealth is not from its wealth of natural resources — coal, timber, gas and water — but by its people. Eastern Kentucky has substantially aided ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. It looked like a scene of wanton destruction, all the more shocking for ...

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 ...

Animal did not show natural wear and tear, investigation finds. Necropsy was inconclusive on mountain lion's origins. Kentucky wildlife officials are concluding that someone brought the mountain that ...

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 ...

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 ...