After Mountain State Spotlight reporting, West Virginia lawmakers passed bills expanding support for foster youth and kinship caregivers.
Debate over issues West Virginians care about can last for hours during a 60-day legislative session. But no amount of floor speeches about clean water, saving lives from flooding ...
As the 2026 session came to a close, many of the state’s biggest challenges, from rising power bills to public schools, saw ...
The West Virginia Senate passed a bill that loosens regulations on aboveground storage tanks, more than a decade after the ...
The West Virginia House of Delegates voted to unlock $38 million in medical marijuana funds for research and homeless ...
Ashley Bunch and her son Otis traveled to the West Virginia Capitol on Feb. 16, to advocate for clean drinking water. Photo by Henry Culvyhouse / Mountain State Spotlight Jake Frye doesn’t trust the ...
Going into the session, West Virginia’s failing public schools struggled to stay afloat. Legislators haven’t done much to help.
Federal broadband funding is coming, but WV lawmakers did little this session to help people struggling with their internet now.
State agencies have worked alongside immigration officers to make unconstitutional arrests. Elected officials wouldn’t answer questions about it.
Noel Mitchell, a health educator with the WVU Extension Family Nutrition Program, helps a student shop during a free kids market in Raleigh County. During kids markets, farmers come to schools and set ...
A $250M plan to fix southern West Virginia’s water systems shrank and stalled as lawmakers prioritized income tax cuts over clean water.
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