About a week after Mountain State Spotlight wrote about Clay County’s only childcare center, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw ...

West Virginia’s two U.S. Representatives, both staunch supporters of President Donald Trump, asked for $250 million to address the state’s drinking water crisis. But the Trump administration proposes ...

Childcare workers earn less than a living wage, families spend a large chunk of their income on care and many counties lack enough providers.

West Virginia only has six OSHA inspectors for 60,000 workplaces in the state, meaning many dangerous job sites go years without oversight. Here’s why.

Outside interests spent more than $750,000 to keep the status quo on the state’s two appeals courts. Voters rejected their candidates.

GOP voters rejected a high-ranking Republican who dared to suggest a minimal guardrail to the Hope Scholarship, while keeping one of the most prominent voices for science-based public health policy in ...

Voters across West Virginia approved most school levies and bond measures on Tuesday’s primary ballot, giving millions of dollars in local funding to support employee salaries, meal programs and ...

West Virginia 2026 Primary Election results West Virginians voted Tuesday to decide who will run in the November general election for the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the state ...

Railroad tracks run from the bottom of the mountain up to the proposed data center site on what remains of the a coal mine in Wharncliffe. Photo by Henry Culvyhouse / Mountain State Spotlight ...

Josh Sword is the president of the West Virginia chapter of the AFL-CIO union representing over 575 affiliated unions in the state. Courtesy photo. Two workers died and another 19 were injured last ...