Mental Health Crisis Response And Mountain Valley Pipeline, Inside Appalachia

This week, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, one year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline went into service, people who live directly in the pipeline’s path have received compensation. But not everyone. And, the Sacred Harp songbook gets an update for the first time since the early 1990s.

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WVPB’s News Team Wins Four Public Media Journalists Association Awards

The awards, announced in conjunction with the organization’s annual conference being held in Kansas City, Missouri, are for work completed during 2024. In all, the organization is presenting 266 first and second place awards to 113 organizations. Awards are presented in five divisions representing public media organizations with as few as one to more than 30 newsroom employees.

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Winners Announced For The 2025 PBS KIDS Writers Contest Reader’s Choice Awards At WVPB

West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards for this year’s PBS KIDS Writers Contest. Every year, WVPB picks a select number of stories out of all the submissions to win the Reader’s Choice Awards. Those stories are either animated or adapted into live action shorts.

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