Community listening sessions reveal Monongalia and Preston counties share struggles over housing, health care and broadband.

With big federal changes looming, West Virginia residents are asking lawmakers to hold town halls. Few are getting a response ...

If a kid wants to attend West Virginia public schools, they have to be vaccinated to protect themselves and others. Over the ...

Sara Crickenberger to retire as MSS Executive Director and Ken Ward Jr. to lead editorial and business functions in an expanded role.

Years after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia will launch flood risk studies of Kanawha River Basin and Guyandotte River.

Sarah Elbeshbishi is Mountain State Spotlight's Environment and Energy Reporter.

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 ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey and lawmakers want to bring data center developments to West Virginia. So, what does that mean for the state?

Founded when education was segregated, West Virginia’s Black universities won’t change under Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s DEI ban.

Since 2019, Chemours has discharged unlawful levels of forever chemicals into the Ohio River. The West Virginia Rivers Coalition wants a federal judge to make them stop.