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Solar Holler workers install panels. In the past decade, the organization has become the largest solar installation company in West Virginia. Photo courtesy Solar Holler Last year, the federal ...
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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.
Sen. Charles Trump, the head of the Senate's redistricting committee. Photo by Perry Bennett/WV Legislature. State lawmakers are set to begin the process of redrawing the lines that help determine who ...
Barbed wire outside the Donald Kuhn Juvenile Center, a maximum security facility in Boone County. Photo by Duncan Slade. This is part 1 of a 2 part series on juvenile justice in West Virginia. Read ...
Gov. Patrick Morrisey prepares to read Green Eggs and Ham to a class at Chesapeake Elementary School last week. Photo courtesy the Governor's Office. Next year, West Virginia taxpayers will subsidize ...