Appalachia

The Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen recently announced plans to open the state’s first river maritime academy in eastern Ohio’s Monroe County. It’s an effort to address a need for tug boat operators and deckhands.

At a time when hospitals across the state are closing maternity wards, southeast Ohio is getting a new one. Memorial Health System broke ground Tuesday on the region’s first women and children’s hospital.

Hydrogen has been pitched as critical for a clean energy future, spurred by big incentives from the Biden administration. But many climate researchers and activists question how much it can actually decarbonize Ohio's grid.

Sen. Joe Manchin says he fought for and won a hub for the gas-rich area of Appalachia. The hub is a public-private consortium that was awarded up to $925 million from the federal government for projects in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance is preparing to dissolve the vestiges of a charitable effort he launched in Ohio after publication of his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” the Trump-Vance campaign said.

Newly minted vice presidential nominee JD Vance built his Wednesday night speech to the Republican National Convention around his own Appalachian roots, but it wasn't the first time he had shared his personal story.

Researchers at Ohio University are working on a project to help bring electric planes to more Appalachian airports. The school recently received $500,000 from the federal Appalachian Regional Commission for its work.

Don MacRostie has been hand crafting mandolins in southeast Ohio for nearly 50 years.

Coal has played a critical role in shaping Central Appalachian culture and identity. A new documentary remembers its legacy, while looking ahead to the future.