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A judge ordered Chemours to stop polluting the Ohio River with cancer-linked chemicals from its West Virginia plant.
West Virginians say their calls, emails, and meetings with members of Congress rarely get thoughtful responses. Here’s what readers told us.
Tucker County residents fought for details of a data center campus planned in their community. Lawmakers made sure they couldn’t do anything about it.
Despite Justice-era business investments and tax cuts fueled by COVID-funding, West Virginia still ranks last in job growth.
Politicians said Medicaid patients are milking the system and took away their health care. But providers are the ones at fault.
Transgender people are under the microscope in West Virginia. Over the last three years the state Legislature has ramped up bills to restrict medical treatment and limit protections for trans people.
Politicians said work requirements would get people back to work. They’ll actually kick poor and working people off Medicaid.
Lawmakers approved a less costly method to plug natural gas wells. State regulators have said this will help them stretch state and federal dollars to clean up more orphaned wells. But it doesn’t ...
Next month, Mountain State Spotlight and League of Women Voters Morgantown – Monongalia County will be in Kingwood and Morgantown on a listening and education tour to inform our coverage of the issues ...
Politicians celebrated a drop in overdose deaths while supporting Trump and Congress’ funding cuts that could cause more ...