Next year, West Virginia will have the last two greyhound racing tracks in the United States. The state government is bound by law to support the greyhound racing operations at two casinos – in Wheeling and Cross Lanes.
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An architecture firm is looking to help public entities and nonprofits building communities in the state.
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West Virginia families can submit applications for school clothing allowances beginning this Friday, July 1.
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The first commercial farm to be staffed and operated by foster care youth is being built at the Stepping Stones Residential Treatment Facility in Wayne County.
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A German packaging manufacturer is investing $48 million in a plant in West Virginia and expects to create 100 jobs in Moorefield, officials said.
Mountain Stage
This week’s episode features performances from Steve Earle & the Dukes, Malcolm Holcombe, John R. Miller, Rachel Baiman, and Mary Hott featuring The Carpenter Ants. Listen this week on your NPR affiliate.
Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll hear about a farm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania that can grow a lot of agriculture on one acre of a former industrial site.We’ll also hear about a podcast that remembers the back to the land movement in West Virginia during the 1970s and 1980s -- as well as a mysterious disappearance.
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The anniversary of the rainfall that sent waters rushing into the hollers of West Virginia might be June 23, but for victim’s loved ones, the nightmare really began the next day in 2016.
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The Vietnam-era Huey helicopter that crashed on Wednesday in Logan County, killing all six people aboard, did not have a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade eliminates the constitutional right to an abortion. Gov. Jim Justice favors the ruling that returns abortion law to the states.
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West Virginia’s elected officials and community leaders are reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
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In a statement released Thursday evening, West Virginia’s Superintendent of Education Clayton Burch and the state school board said the Hope Scholarship diverts funding from public schools and that makes it unconstitutional.
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On this West Virginia Morning, Appalachian millipede scientist Derek Hennen talks about the discovery of newly discovered regional species — including one named after megastar Taylor Swift.

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