State lawmakers have tightly constrained how people with substance use disorder can get clean syringes, medication and treatment.

House Majority Whip Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer, speaks on the floor while debating the transfer rule in 2023. Photo by Perry Bennett/WV Legislative Photography. Lawmakers in the House of Delegates are ...

Lawmakers cleared a key hurdle Wednesday to free millions of dollars in the state’s medical marijuana fund. This story first appeared in Statehouse Spotlight, a newsletter about what's happening at ...

Homeschooled children and their parents lined the hallway outside the House Finance Committee room on Friday, Feb. 20, to oppose changes to funding for the Hope Scholarship program. Photo by Perry ...

The state of West Virginia legalized medical cannabis in 2017. Photo by Autumn Culvyhouse Last October, Mountain State Spotlight discovered $34 million from West Virginia’s medical cannabis program ...

Residents of Wyoming County brought water sourced from their communities to a Mountain State Spotlight listening session in 2024. Photo by Tre Spencer / Mountain State Spotlight Throughout the ...

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

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

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 ...

For many West Virginia foster kids, the issue isn’t that they’re out-of-state. It’s that they’re institutionalized in the ...

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