Happy W.Va. Day — 161 Years!
As every eighth grader knows, West Virginia officially left Virginia on June 20, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War to become a separate state.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, two companies are working side by side to build a new titanium plant in Jackson County, powered by solar. Also, even in ideal circumstances, the removal of a child from their home by CPS is always traumatic. We talk with community advocates about the process and resources available.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsBeing a parent is a 24-hour role, and a lifetime commitment that has historically fallen to women. As men have started to take on more domestic work, what it means to be a father has started to shift.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, as the primary race for governor enters the home stretch, some candidate’s negative attack ads running endlessly on broadcast and social media target a minority group – transgender children. But what is the fallout from these ads for this vulnerable group, and West Virginia children and families in general? Randy Yohe has the story.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, digital devices and social media command more and more of our attention these days. Balancing this and creating healthy boundaries for increasingly younger children is becoming a bigger part of being a parent. Chris Schulz takes a look at this issue in the latest installment of, “Now What? A Series On Parenting.”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia lays claim to Lily’s Place, the nation’s first medical center specifically created for infants born from addicted parents. The Huntington facility is now expanding their services to support these growing infants' siblings and families.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsShipments of around 34,000 total new vaccines are coming to West Virginia after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation approved vaccines for children as young as 6 months old last Friday, with Pfizer and Moderna each supplying 17,000 to the state.
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