As opposition to data centers mounts locally in communities across the country, the decisive fights over AI’s infrastructure ...

To fully appreciate the beauty of Tucker County, you must visit. Nestled at 3,500 feet in the gorgeous Allegheny Mountains ...

On a Tuesday afternoon, Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB and also runs GameChanger, the school’s prevention ...

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 ...

A decade after a federal investigation found West Virginia unnecessarily institutionalizes foster kids, a Mountain State Spotlight investigation has found the state’s most vulnerable kids are still ...

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.

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.