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As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted ...
Pamela Moe was reading the paper in late March when she spotted a public notice from a company she’d never heard of. Fundamental Data, a Virginia-based company, had applied for a permit from West ...
On February 15, 2025, a catastrophic flood ravaged McDowell County, West Virginia, and much of the state’s southern coalfields. At least three people were reported dead due to the flash flooding, with ...
While these efforts were unsuccessful, this year’s political landscape is different. West Virginia House members have already introduced an identical library bill. And Gov. Patrick Morrisey has ...
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
Reporting highlights. Locked up: West Virginia still sends kids with physical or emotional disabilities to group homes and treatment centers at a rate three times the national average, according to ...
Reporting Highlights. Continued shortages: West Virginia is still struggling to hire and retain child welfare workers, with wide-reaching consequences for kids in the foster care system. Permanency: ...
Many seniors already face more challenges, like poverty and health conditions. When grandkids are placed in their care, those problems can worsen and grandparents are more likely to need mental health ...
When the First Baptist Church in Roan Mountain, Tennessee had its first flood, it was devastating. That was in 1998, when the former church building took on at least six feet of water, according to ...
In the wake of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin promising his vote for a major climate change bill in exchange for the pipeline's remaining permits, people in the project's path are torn on their next steps.
From an attempted assassination and an historic withdrawal from the race, the 2024 election has already had more twists and turns than an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. I should be forgiven, then, for how ...