New data shows which are America's most and least overweight states, based on an evaluation of measures like obesity rates, ...

West Virginia’s adult protective services took Ray Whittaker, 72, his sister Lorene, 79, and her son Timmy, 46, from the ...

West Virginia state Sen. Chris Rose (R) introduced a resolution Thursday inviting 30 counties in Virginia and Maryland to ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey and health and human resources officials in West Virginia announced Wednesday that the state was ...

West Virginia has officially submitted its application for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund program, Gov.

Numbers show that a lot of people in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families. Following ...

Nearly 1 in 6 Americans lives in a “distressed” community. Where they live and what they experience could explain a lot about our politics.

The sepia-toned photos of rural America often evoke a nostalgic, simpler time. But the reality of rural America’s past is often romanticized and rarely shown in its full, unvarnished form. In this ...

Seventy percent or more of relatively poor Republicans supported a 15 percent increase in SNAP benefits, an increase in the ...

Whenever Roanoke author Beth Macy visited her hometown in Ohio, she was struck by how the city and its residents, family and friends included, had changed over the years. Macy, the first in her family ...

There Ain’t Much of a Democratic Party’ transcript Senator Bernie Sanders started talking about income inequality nearly 40 years ago in our nation today, we have an extreme disparity between the rich ...

Generational poverty has plagued the Olympic Peninsula since the spotted owl decision. The best solution is to trust local leaders to solve the problem.