This week, too often, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder wind up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, changes to the Endangered Species Act could benefit big business. They could also kill animals like the eastern hellbender. And, in troubled times, a West Virginia writer says to find peace in nature.
Acoustic folk duo The Sea The Sea are coming back to the Mountain State this month to play a couple shows. If the name sounds familiar, it’s probably because they’ve played a couple times on NPR’s Mountain Stage, or because one of the band members is a Charleston native or because they just play great music.
I sat down with The Sea The Sea’s Mira Stanley and Chuck E. Costa to chat about their new record, their thoughts on music streaming as an indie band, and their connection to the Mountain State.
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Part Two of our chat with The Sea The Sea. We talk about the duo's new record and what the future holds for them.
The American Lung Association has released its 27th State of the Air report on air pollution Wednesday and awarded grades for metro areas across the country.
America’s rural hospitals are closing at an alarming pace. That’s become a concern in many parts of West Virginia. We look at nearby Tennessee, which has the highest hospital closure rate in the nation – but also some shining examples of hope. WPLN’s Health Reporter Catherine Sweeney takes us to Linden – a Tennessee town where the shuttered hospital there has recently reopened.
A longtime Charleston priest, activist and central figure in one of West Virginia’s most turbulent cultural conflicts has died. The Rev. Jim Lewis was 90.