Earlier this month, Kanawha County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home in Sissonville to investigate a report of suspected child abuse. When they arrived, deputies made a shocking discovery — two young teenagers locked in a small shed. Another child, a 3-year-old, was alone in the ...
CHARLESTON — If you’ve gone outside in the past day or two, you’ve noticed the haze. But that smokiness in the air doesn’t just make it harder to see the sunshine. It can also make it more difficult — and dangerous — to breathe. The West Virginia Department of Environmental ...
Originally meant to be told in three parts, the DSF Stop saga ended up being a seven-installment series examining how the outreach organization may or may not have misspent federal COVID grants in its quest to get north-central West Virginia’s Black population vaccinated against ...
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) shared updates and changes to department programs in its Bureau for Medical Services and Bureau for Family Assistance effective with the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on Thursday. Bureau for Medical ...
A proposal to split West Virginia’s largest agency, DHHR, into three has passed the full House of Delegates. The three would be the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Health Facilities. Delegates voted 95-3 in favor of the change. “The ...
The Legislature is back in session, which means it’s time for the return of “The Good, the Bad and the Stupid” — a weekly roundup of bills moving through the state’s capitol, categorized by whether we believe the legislation to be something good for the state, bad for the state or ...