In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...

For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...

Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB ...

As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...

On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of ...

As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted ...

There’s only so many times a woman bound to the code of Clorox, Pledge and Windex can clean up after someone else’s mess before the time comes to act. She wasn’t afraid of jail. “They’ll give me three ...

With the release of “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance branded himself an advocate for a forgotten demographic, embracing “identity politics” to champion the plight of the poor family – the poor white ...

This is the first story in Critical Condition, a three part series. Read more here. In his history of Williamson, West Virginia, Okey P. Keadle – a member of Williamson High School’s inaugural, 1918, ...