West Virginia Watch

West Virginia localities spent nearly $10 million more of the opioid settlement funds they received between 2024 and 2025 than in the year previously, with a bulk of that spending going toward law enforcement, jail bill payments and support for emergency medical services, according to a West Virginia Watch analysis of a

There was good news at the state Capitol on Tuesday: a competitive college scholarship is having great success at recruiting and retaining passionate public school teachers in West Virginia.  

The Underwood Smith Teaching Scholarship requires recipients to teach in the state five years after completion of their degree and teach in an in-demand field, including elementa...

The number of West Virginia’s foster children is trending slightly downward but the state continues to send hundreds of children out of state. 

There are 5,719 children in foster care and the number has declined from more than 7,000 children in 2020.

West Virginia spends more than $60 million a year putting hundreds of foster children in out-of-state facilities ...

A group of West Virginia lawmakers spent the summer reworking a controversial piece of anti-child abuse legislation that sent the House of Delegates into chaos this year during deb...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey has requested federal disaster assistance for three counties affected by heavy rains and flooding last month. 

The state has requested individual assistance for Kanawha, Fayette and Harrison counties and statewide hazard mitigation for storms and flooding that occurred Aug. 14 through 18. 

“Our communities have been hit hard by repeated sto...