Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks at a press conference on Oct. 2. Photo courtesy of the office of the governor. At a commercial truck inspection station and near toll booths on Interstate 77, West ...

Abby Mitchell is a medical student at the WVU School of Medicine's Charleston campus. She volunteers with the Charleston Homelessness and Street Medicine Mission project, taking basic medical care to ...

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the ...

ROCKPORT — Kim Sargent keeps an eye on the weather. It’s how she decides when to do her laundry as most of the water that flows through Sargent’s home comes from the rainwater she collects. “If it ...

Many West Virginians will stop qualifying for Medicaid. A new rural healthcare fund won’t help them pay for care.

Voters rejected an amendment supported by Gov. Gaston Caperton in 1989 to give the Legislature and the governor oversight of the school board by a 9-to-1 margin. In 2022, 58% of voters rejected a ...

GOP voters rejected a high-ranking Republican who dared to suggest a minimal guardrail to the Hope Scholarship, while keeping one of the most prominent voices for science-based public health policy in ...

Hopemont Hospital is one of four state-owned hospitals being sold to a private company. State officials recently released the contract with the buyer, Marx Development Group. Photo by Erin Beck The ...

Reporters and editors at Mountain State Spotlight have been asking folks: What should candidates be focused on during this 2026 election season? Over 200 West Virginians have responded to a survey ...

Railroad tracks run from the bottom of the mountain up to the proposed data center site on what remains of the a coal mine in Wharncliffe. Photo by Henry Culvyhouse / Mountain State Spotlight ...