The researchers also found significant differences between mountain dwellers in the former "Wild West"—in the Rockies, for example—and those in eastern ranges like the Appalachians.

The Morgantown Roller Vixens practice at Skate A Way in Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. May 12, 2014. (Raymond Thompson Jr. / Looking at Appalachia) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...

Into the woods. Shaw passed down the knowledge she’d learned over the years living in the Appalachians. “There’s a big foraging community in Asheville.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – For nearly a decade, the “Black in Appalachia” project has documented the history and culture of Black Americans in the Appalachian region. Now, this project has a ...

Two new observational studies highlight the outsized burden of cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) among both ...

Of the 88 Ohio counties, 32 of them are Appalachian, including Coshocton County. Across the nation, only 14% of the population lives in a rural area. This equates to 46 million of the total 330 ...

Imagine living in the Appalachian region in rural southwestern Virginia, where you struggle to feed and clothe your family, where your home's porch wobbles from the movement of the family pet, a ...

Cris Howard, of Reston, Virginia, put her executive-level biopharmaceutical career on hold to hike the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail. ... A Virginia woman is living a dream — by moving out of the ...

A new bouldering gym in Bristol, the Appalachian Bouldering Center, located at 1225 Volunteer Parkway, seeks to introduce Bristolians to the joys of rock climbing.