At least nine states have passed voting laws this year that will make it more difficult for some voters to cast their ballots during the midterm elections in November. Lawmakers in Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia passed laws between January and May of this year restricting access […]

Eight states — Tennessee, West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Arkansas, Indiana and Alabama — had turnout rates of below 50% when averaged between  the last two national elections. Yet these states did almost nothing this year to boost turnout, according to an analysis by States Newsroom of new election laws and policies (though one, Hawaii, did make meaningful reforms in previous sessions). In fact, several moved in the opposite direction, imposing new restrictions that are likely only to make voting harder.

Four states — Indiana, Nebraska, Washington and West Virginia — enacted laws this year that weaken child labor protections, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank. In all, 13 states had bills seeking to weaken those protections; some are still under consideration.

Three states this year have enacted laws that require or allow schools to use mobile, wearable, wireless or silent panic alarms to quickly summon emergency responders. The new laws in Illinois, Virgin...

Proposed changes to FEMA would leave states more responsible for disaster recovery. West Virginia lawmakers have left the state ill-prepared.

Negotiations are stalling and tensions escalating as employees for The Beverage Market, in Charleston, West Virginia, are entering the fourth week of their strike.

The air in the school gym smelled like homemade biscuits.Kanawha County Schools cook Marsha Burns spent the morning at Elk Center Elementary in Charleston, West Virginia, making biscuits with a new…

Only one student has registered for courses at West Virginia University’s new Washington Center, an academic program mandated by Republican lawmakers for the campus. State lawmakers have allocated $3…

Liver cancer patients in West Virginia will have a new option for treatment at a Huntington hospital. Marshall Health is the first health care system in the state to offer histotripsy, a treatment…

A team tasked with reviewing deaths of children in West Virginia foster care have published their first report. State lawmakers mandated the creation of the team as part of foster care reform efforts.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising people not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell locations in West Virginia and four other states after it’s been linked to a mul...

Ohio has reported 1,316 cyclosporiasis cases as of Thursday, according to the Ohio Department of Health, as the parasite makes headlines around the country for causing gastrointestinal illness describ...

How SNAP’s work requirements is hurting one West Virginia woman

At press conference, Democrats focus on local control, water usage.

'We have officially, as House Democrats, requested a special session. Again, we cannot wait. If we wait to the legislative session, there will be more schools that close.'

West Virginia House Democrats are asking Governor Morrisey to call a special session to alleviate the financial crisis facing our state’s public school system.

The Republican supermajority in Charleston thinks they know what’s best for counties where data centers are being proposed, like Tucker, Berkeley, Mason, and Putnam.