An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West Virginia compared with New York. Even though the states had very similar life ...
As debates rage about health care regulation, West Virginia's Certificate of Need (CON) law has come under increased scrutiny, but the reality is this program plays an important role in helping ensure ...
It’s 2025, and West Virginia has a new governor. It would be nice to think things will get better under Gov. Patrick Morrisey ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, including locking some of them in a shed, forcing ...
Appalachia may be largely poor, as Vance writes, but three quarters of the rural counties in the mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia have communities that help children in poor families earn and ...
After losing population and jobs for decades, rural West Virginia is on the rebound. Projects like the Nucor sheet mill underway in Apple Grove and the Timet furnaces and Berkshire ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) - West Virginia University is working ... Officials said risk behaviors in rural youth are heightened ...