A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

It's a special nickname that you get when you do big long heights. Candy Mama did the big one - the entire Appalachian trail, 40 days, 18 hours, 5 minutes. That's the fastest known time.

Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner has died weeks after being injured when the lawn mower he was riding plunged into an empty ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a ... with a prisoner monitoring device, The Mountain Eagle reported. Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

On a dead-end road that climbs out of the tiny city of Jenkins, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Eastern Kentucky, there stands a large warehouse with a mint green roof.

Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner, known for his staunch support for the coal industry and other causes in his Appalachian district ... a good man who loved the mountains and its people." ...

Retired Letcher County sheriff’s deputy Eugene Slone was heading out the door of his eastern Kentucky home Thursday ...

The coldest air since early Spring has invaded Kentucky and may even bring the first flakes of the season to the highest mountains of the Appalachian Mountains. For the rest of us, we have to ...

Ten projects aimed at improving the economy and health in Eastern Kentucky been awarded more than $11.5 million in federal funding, the Appalachian Regional Commission announced Wednesday.

(WAND) - Ameren Illinois crews are returning home after providing support to Appalachian Power in restoring the energy grid in the Appalachian Mountains. Ameren Illinois reports it help in safely ...