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What can wildlife tell us about our ecosystem — and will we listen?
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A memorabilia and real estate auction of items owned and associated with Colonel Harland Sanders, and his wife Claudia, went up for sale in Kentucky and around the world. -
Data center development is a fast growing industry, with projects popping up in seemingly every corner of the country. But that’s not been the case in West Virginia so far. Now, state officials are rolling out the red carpet for the expensive and increasingly expansive projects. -
A podcast series takes traditional Appalachian ballads about train wrecks and murder and transforms them into radio plays. -
Appalachian researchers are working to restore populations of the eastern hellbender, a species of giant salamander struggling to survive amid a changing climate and human activity. -
Far from Hollywood, Lexington’s annual Harry Dean Stanton Fest paid tribute to the character actor and Kentucky native this weekend, days before what would have been his 100th birthday. -
In the midst of what many have dubbed a "loneliness epidemic," local bookstores are building relationships with customers that are far more than transactional. -
Diseases like white-nose syndrome and climate change have caused mass population loss among bat species, and the consequences could be costly. -
Freshwater mussels are scattered throughout waterways in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, playing a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. But populations are dwindling, and researchers want to better understand the causes. -
The nine-banded armadillo has become an indicator of rising temperatures in Kentucky and the surrounding region, as the species moves farther north. -
Abandoned oil and natural gas wells are scattered throughout West Virginia and the surrounding region, leaking toxic pollutants into the atmosphere, and the state doesn’t know where all of them are.
