WV’s only demolition program spent $30M tearing down abandoned buildings. The money is gone, with thousands of structures still standing.
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Solar Holler workers install panels. In the past decade, the organization has become the largest solar installation company in West Virginia. Photo courtesy Solar Holler Last year, the federal ...
As a reader-supported West Virginian newsroom, we rely on your generosity to power our journalism. Now through December 31, the Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation will match your donation. We are ...
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.
A yard sign protesting the data center project is staked in a planter outside of Trailhead Coffee Shop in downtown Davis. Photo by Sarah Elbeshbishi / Mountain State Spotlight TUCKER COUNTY — In late ...
While a myriad of bills aiming to limit LGBTQ+ rights came before the West Virginia Legislature this past session, no bill received quite as much public attention as House Bill 2007. The bill, which ...
An excavated mountain and highwalls on the western side of the Twilight mining complex owned by Lexington Coal Company in Lindytown, West Virginia (Dane Rhys, special to ProPublica) This article was ...
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