The words to the well-known (especially in these parts) song “Almost Heaven” ring so true to anyone who has had the privilege of driving these beautiful, bucolic, pristine backroads of ...

For the second year in a row, the West Virginia baseball team is headed to the NCAA Super Regionals. The Mountaineers ...

Learn more about the top things to do in Princeton, West Virginia and the surrounding area including outdoor adventures, ...

Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural ...

Not to be overshadowed, the regular menu features creations like the “Thundering Herd” (topped with chili and coleslaw as a ...

The undisputed heavyweight champion is the legendary “Homewrecker” – a formidable 15-inch, one-pound hot dog that arrives ...

Donald Trump had picked Vance as his running mate at least in part because his “hillbilly ... coal miner in West Virginia. At the RNC, Vance invoked his Appalachian burial ground to challenge ...

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month ... a collection of essays called “Appalachian Reckoning” that serves as a rebuttal to “Hillbilly Elegy.” ...

And Marlinton tries to have its snake and eat it, too: by leaning in to West Virginia’s stereotypes while trying to show there’s something more to the state than hillbilly caricature.

Pancake’s dispossessed characters, from labourers struggling on failing farms in West Virginia to coal miners ... who have often been stereotyped as hillbillies… [earning] him a place in the canon of ...