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Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health ...
The Price of Recovery W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills.
As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted before it started.
Rural areas like Tucker County are caught in an AI-fueled tech boom that strains energy infrastructure and depletes natural resources.
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources.
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
As West Virginia’s foster care system struggles to hire and retain workers amid low pay and overwhelming caseloads, it stresses foster families and keeps kids from getting the attention they need.
Not only has Childers reformed how Appalachians think about addiction and religion, but he's re-cast the way the rest of the country views our story too.
In the wake of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin promising his vote for a major climate change bill in exchange for the pipeline's remaining permits, people in the project's path are torn on their next steps.
Appalachia's ID requirements intertwine with legislation, lawsuits, and logistical barriers restricting who can vote and how.
In 2017, when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security declared the electoral system “critical infrastructure,” state and local election officials around the country were forced to take cybersecurity ...
Here’s some context and clarity about the relationship between dominion theology and the NAR, the “apostles” and “prophets” who lead this movement, and what it all means for our politics.