Nearly a year has passed since a rare "hundred year flood" devastated the Appalachian region of eastern Kentucky, an area known as "the mountains" that was already stricken by extreme poverty and ...

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 ...

“A 21st-century Homestead Act offers compelling advantages for political leaders…For conservatives, it emphasizes individual responsibility, property ownership, and free market solutions…For ...