After several years of mountain town-living, Kellie Shaltes faced a sobering question: Could she sustain it? Shaltes had ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, such as Florida, which has 1.3 million alligators, there are still many ...

People from Georgia to Maine gathered in Roanoke this week to discuss conserving the natural landscape that surrounds the ...

In Appalachian Ohio, when a coal-fired power plant shuts down, entire communities feel the aftershocks. At Ohio University's ...

In the spring of 1901, 33 people from the small West Virginia town of Dry Fork, high in the Potomac Highlands of the ...

That’s the magic of The Swinging Bridge Restaurant in Paint Bank, Virginia, a place so tucked into the folds of the ...

The Swinging Bridge Restaurant in Paint Bank, Virginia sits nestled in the Appalachian Mountains like a delicious secret ...

A 509-acre property in Dauphin County has been acquired by The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania, which has transferred the ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

After Tropical Storm Helene, people were desperately trying to understand what had just happened to turn their mountain ...

“After having a friend whose kid rolled over in the middle of the night and cracked her forehead on the corner of a mirrored ...