One in five veteran coal miners in Central Appalachia now has black lung disease. But the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund which provides critical...

What makes a town or small community a place where people want to live? Where strangers want to move to? WMMT reports on the...

Ronni Lundy, whose recent book “Victuals” won the prestigious James Beard Award, was guest speaker at the 2018 East Kentucky Leadership Conference. She spoke...

Could increasing agricultural production be part of the solution to Appalachia’s economic woes? WMMT DJ Jim Webb interviews Jonathan Webb, founder and CEO of...

Student teams from across the eastern Kentucky coalfields came together at the Knott County Sportsplex, bringing with them drones that they themselves had built....

Sometimes rebuilding an economy, and lives, means adding one or two jobs at a time. A new bakery established by folks at the Hemphill...