Health & Science

Recovery in the Park is an outdoor event featuring local vendors, food trucks and other activities. But the event is meant to provide resources and education about treatment to the Eastern Panhandle region.

The Beckley VA Medical Center wants more people to know about the resources available to prevent veteran suicide. Suicide rates among veterans are more than 50 percent higher than civilian adults. The VA is hosting events in September, which is Suicide Prevention Month.

Gov. Jim Justice is concerned with the impact cold weather will have on the state’s COVID-19 numbers.

One of the state’s largest free clinics is expanding with help from federal funds.

Two of coal’s pollution legacies are acid mine drainage, the waste from mining coal, and fly ash, waste from burning coal. For years, some energy companies have put the waste into wet or dry storage impoundments.

The state’s health officials continue to focus on COVID-19, but there are rising concerns about the flu.

More than $4 million is coming from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women to three programs in West Virginia.

It’s possible the latest coronavirus surge has already passed us by, but that doesn’t mean things are over.

Gov. Jim Justice has signed House Bill 302 into law, a measure banning abortions, with limited exceptions, in West Virginia.

Federal funding has been approved to support student loan repayment for healthcare workers in West Virginia.