If you wanted to make a movie about the pain and progress of Kentucky’s Appalachian coalfield in the last 60 years, a key ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance built his name on a caricature, a hillbilly morality play dressed up as sociology. His ...

Norman’s work, especially “Kinfolks,” depicted Appalachia in ways more alive and vivid than common stereotypical treatments.

Cawood was unafraid to challenge the region’s powerful coal industry as an attorney and one-term state legislator.

We have all heard the term “Appalachia” or “Appalachian” — but few know the true origins of the word and how it has evolved ...

H.R. 1 will devastate Medicaid, but Kentucky can protect thousands of residents, particularly those at highest risk, while ...

The opioid epidemic has been called “the deadliest drug crisis in American history.” Of the 105,000 people who died from drug ...

PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Gurney Norman, an Appalachian writer and mentor left several legacies behind during his life in ...

Gurney Norman was a short story writer and novelist, as well as a UK writing teacher who led UK’s creative writing department ...

Kentucky author Gurney Norman, who died on Oct. 12, encouraged generations of writers at UK and around the state.

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HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - Legendary Appalachian writer Gurney Norman has died. His wife says he died Sunday of natural causes. He was 88.