It took 63 years to get to this point, but a West Virginia Air National Guard 130th Airlift Wing crew has good reason to be proud. They are the first all-female crew in the unit’s history. Last week, the crew took flight on its way to Naval Air Station Key West’s Boca Chica Field, for an ...

Parents usually do a good job of teaching children to be wary of strangers. But Greg Collins, executive director of the Children’s Listening Place told us last week, we may be missing the mark — and it’s endangering our kids. “Stranger Danger has always been prominent in our ...

Credit federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan with one thing: He seems to better understand how to interact with our state than many of his predecessors. Rather than blurting out “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business,” ...

“We’re all down, one to go. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was talking specifically about the years of ongoing lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies that helped fuel our region’s substance abuse epidemic. This ...

West Virginia’s leaders and economic development officials love to talk about all the reasons why people would want to move here: quality of life, proximity to the nation’s population centers, low labor costs, and property taxes lower than our neighbors, to name a few. But one area where we ...

Among the many challenges to those in recovery from substance addiction is getting back into the workforce. Here in a region hit harder than any other by the epidemic that has gripped us for more than a decade, that challenge combines with our sluggish economy to make the odds seem nearly ...