Mountain State Spotlight

In WV vs. EPA, the Supreme Court ruled the agency couldn't move forward with greenhouse gas limits it had set under the Clean Power Plan.

Lawmakers want to give teachers power to remove troubled elementary schoolers, but they don’t have a plan for what happens to the kids.

A bill pushed by Republicans would reduce WV’s unemployment benefits to 12 weeks in times of low unemployment.

The West Virginia Division of Highways will consider a northern route for the proposed highway that bypasses Thomas and Davis.

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A federal settlement reveals that West Virginia's largest hospital system, WVU Health, failed for years to report and prevent employees from stealing opiates. The failures occurred as the opioid crisis devastated the state.

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A failed local school levy exposes weaknesses in West Virginia's public school funding system and consequences for affected communities.

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Lawmakers promised reforms after a 2017 warehouse fire in Parkersburg, but a later blaze exposed the same unresolved regulatory gap. The latest fire revealed that the change lawmakers pledged after the 2017 incident remained unaddressed roughly a decade later.

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Public schools are closing across West Virginia, leaving affected communities to grapple with the social and economic consequences of those losses.

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