In September, the Charleston-born fiddler won Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for her latest record “Trail of Flowers” at the Americana Music Awards.

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University celebrates its rich Appalachian roots each year with a week of activities that ...

Those in West Virginia who will govern for the next period face a major dilemma. They will face a population that resides in ...

The setlist included tracks from their newest record along with tunes embedded deep within the band’s western Virginia roots.

Michael Wolfgram by tech. fall over Wilson Spires, 19-2 Michael Wolfgram by tech. fall over Elijah Hunter, 20-3 WVU officially opens its regular season for the third consecutive year at the Southeast ...

West Virginia starting quarterback Garrett Greene and left tackle Wyatt Milum are considered doubtful for Saturday's game at Arizona, sources told ESPN. Greene left last week's loss to Kansas ...

Cue dueling banjos: People in West Virginia search “Halloween music” on YouTube the most, and they search the most for “Halloween decorations” on Google, according to Google Trends.

He first rose to national prominence with his bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” which detailed what it was like growing up in the Ohio steel mill city of Middletown and his time in Appalachian ...

This label of “hillbilly” is the product of a conglomerate of different cultures going back to the founding of North Carolina and the Appalachian mountains as a colony. Scottish, German and ...

Appalachian ... they migrated from Virginia, where they arrived in the 1600s, from England, to North Carolina. Other branches of those Virginians moved north and west. Being independent, they ...

West Virginia’s voter participation rate has been among the least active in the nation. Voter turnout is the ratio of the ratio of ballots cast to registered voters. The state’s voter ...

State fairs. Frozen custard. The jingle for the home-improvement chain Menards. Rolling corn fields, sweatshirts with shorts, steel plant smokestacks and swing-state politics. But also: Chicago ...