After Mountain State Spotlight reporting, West Virginia lawmakers passed bills expanding support for foster youth and kinship caregivers.

Debate over issues West Virginians care about can last for hours during a 60-day legislative session. But no amount of floor speeches about clean water, saving lives from flooding ...

As the 2026 session came to a close, many of the state’s biggest challenges, from rising power bills to public schools, saw ...

While West Virginians struggle to pay their power bills, lawmakers are rejecting or tabling proposals to help.

The West Virginia Senate passed a bill that loosens regulations on aboveground storage tanks, more than a decade after the ...

The West Virginia House of Delegates voted to unlock $38 million in medical marijuana funds for research and homeless ...

Federal broadband funding is coming, but WV lawmakers did little this session to help people struggling with their internet ...

Going into the session, West Virginia’s failing public schools struggled to stay afloat. Legislators haven’t done much to ...

State agencies have worked alongside immigration officers to make unconstitutional arrests. Elected officials wouldn’t answer ...

A $250M plan to fix southern West Virginia’s water systems shrank and stalled as lawmakers prioritized income tax cuts over ...

A compromise budget between the West Virginia House and Senate is on the governor’s desk with seven days left in the session. It does not provide enough funding for some critical needs facing the ...