The recent Healing Appalachia music festival featured stars like Chris Stapleton and Tyler Childers. This year, through a sponsoring partnership from Los Angeles, Healing Appalachia also welcomed another big name: the Matthew Perry Foundation. The Califor...
On this episode of The Legislature Today, the House of Delegates for more than two hours debated a bill that would require public schools to accept religious vaccine exemptions. But Senate Bill 460 was rejected, 56-42. Briana Heaney has the story.
After the defeat of the vaccine bill in the House, News Director Eric Douglas sat down and discussed the results with Dr. Cathy Slemp, former state health officer for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, and now co-chair of the West Virginia Hope in Action Alliance, and House Minority Leader Del. Sean Hornbuckle, D-Cabell.
Also, parental rights took center stage on the Senate floor, as lawmakers held a lengthy debate over local control. Chris Schulz has more.
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The letter states that claims of fully renewable energy use are not only false, but also pressures energy providers to move away from fossil-fuel-generated energy.
Twelve people were charged with immigration violations along the West Virginia Turnpike in a two-day period this week. And a life saving effort that began in this state just went nationwide.
This week, for nearly a century, the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival has staged a formal dance. Organizers rely on a manual that’s been passed down for generations. Also, abortion is illegal in most cases in Tennessee. So what happens after a birth? A photographer followed one mother for a year. And, new prisons are touted as a way to bring jobs to former coal communities. Not everybody agrees the trade-off is worth it.
Harm reduction advocates in Charleston, where the overdose prevention initiative first began, are still keen on the importance of preventing overdose deaths.