To fully appreciate the beauty of Tucker County, you must visit. Nestled at 3,500 feet in the gorgeous Allegheny Mountains ...

On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of ...

The Price of Recovery W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills.

As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted before it started.

Rural areas like Tucker County are caught in an AI-fueled tech boom that strains energy infrastructure and depletes natural resources.

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 ...

A decade after a federal investigation found West Virginia unnecessarily institutionalizes foster kids, a Mountain State Spotlight investigation has found the state’s most vulnerable kids are still ...

As West Virginia’s foster care system struggles to hire and retain workers amid low pay and overwhelming caseloads, it stresses foster families and keeps kids from getting the attention they need.

Right-wing groups can speak on ETSU's campus with no waivers or trigger warnings, while the painting "Evolution" by Joel Gibbs got both.

Here’s some context and clarity about the relationship between dominion theology and the NAR, the “apostles” and “prophets” who lead this movement, and what it all means for our politics.

For decades, Democrats have watched their party’s influence wane in Appalachia. While the Democratic Party used to be a bastion of support for the rural and working class, that’s changed dramatically ...

“You take a state with poverty, low education, a lot of pain from blue-collar workers and what happens to their bodies after working all those years, and then add the highest rates of autoimmune ...