Wood County is leading West Virginia’s effort to build certified, shovel-ready sites, as the state hopes to attract jobs and ...

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

This month, students across West Virginia are returning to school — and at least for now — they have to be vaccinated. As ...

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

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.

Mountain State Spotlight announced today that Sara Crickenberger will retire as the organization’s Executive Director and that Ken Ward Jr. will assume a larger role to supervise both editorial and ...

A U.S. district judge said the chemical company exposes residents along the river to “real and ongoing harm” from toxic forever chemicals. He ordered the Washington Works plant to comply immediately ...

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

Henry Culvyhouse is Mountain State Spotlight's State Government Watchdog Reporter.