In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...

For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...

As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...

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 ...

On a Tuesday afternoon, Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB and also runs GameChanger, the school’s prevention ...

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.

The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize 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 ...