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Local news stories from West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Whether it’s important news events, interesting features about people and places, the latest in environmental news, stories about education or the economy, West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s team of experienced reporters bring listeners in depth stories and interviews from around the state.
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In rural communities across America, there are people traveling many miles from home to deliver babies. In the past five years, nearly 125 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies or announced that they will. That’s about two closings a month. On the next Us & Them, host Trey Kay hears from families facing that change, and how it’s affecting prospects for their rural cities and towns.
The post How Hospital Closures Are Affecting Rural Communities, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Online gambling commercials in the state seem to dominate the television and radio airwaves. Those messages are not lost on our college students. Marshall University Broadcast Journalism senior Abigail Ayes just completed an impactful story about student online gambling for the campus news program, MU Report. Randy Yohe, who is also Ayes’ instructor, spoke with the student reporter about her findings.
The post The Prevalence Of Student Online Gambling, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
The annual Mothman Festival has a competition for the title of ‘most unusual Appalachian celebration.’ Bath County, Kentucky, celebrated a historic occurrence this week. The meat shower of 1876. That’s when pieces of meat mysteriously fell from the sky onto a farm.
The post The Meat Shower Of 1876, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
With a final budget now approved by both the House and Senate and headed to Gov. Patrick Morrisey for a signature, West Virginia budget watchers say there are looming expenses that haven’t been taken into consideration. Also, more Americans than ever have access to a kind of savings account that lets them set aside pre-tax money for medical expenses. But this option takes a little effort to set up and navigate.
The post State Budget Talk And Setting Up A Medical Savings Account, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
On this West Virginia Morning, a James Beard award winner is cooking up her twist on the old-fashioned fish fry, and the West Virginia Legislature completes a budget.
The post Making Award-Winning Affrilachian Food In Asheville, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
WVPB had a conversation with Us & Them host Trey Kay earlier this week on the significance today of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. This week, WVPB is hosting a special screening event at Marshall University with excerpts from Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, and Kay will lead a panel discussion. We once again hear from Kay, this time speaking with one of the panelists — Marshall University political science professor George Davis — about why revisiting the nation’s founding story still matters.
The post Marshall Professor Weighs In On Significance Of Nation’s Founding – 250 Years Later, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
After a frigid winter, we are now in the month that will bring us spring. The Allegheny Front, a public radio program based in Pittsburgh, that reports on environmental issues in the region, brings us this look at how climate change might affect just how early spring flowers bloom.
The post How Climate Change Might Affect Spring Flowers, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
WVPB will be screening excerpts of Ken Burns’ recent PBS documentary series "The American Revolution" this week at Marshall. Us & Them host Trey Kay will moderate the event, and he spoke recently with WVPB News Director Eric Douglas about why revisiting the nation’s founding story matters today. Also, a bill to temporarily delay moving a child to homeschooling during an active case of abuse or neglect hit a snag in the Senate on Monday.
The post Why The Nation’s Founding Story Matters Today, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
West Virginians gathered at the capitol last week to urge lawmakers to take action on rising electric bills. Also, state leaders have been quick to respond to news of the U.S.-led attack on Iran. And, Larry Kump, a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, died over the weekend.
The post The ‘Ratepayers Bill Of Rights’ And State Leaders Respond To US-Led Attack On Iran, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
We listen to an excerpt from the latest Inside Appalachia and learn about the influence and contributions of Oscar Micheaux, an African American filmmaker who lived in Virginia in the 1920s and shattered stereotypes.
The post How A Filmmaker In The 1920s Shattered Stereotypes, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Millions of people are addicted to opioid pain medication. Some use medication-based treatment for their addiction. But that has created a divide in the world of recovery. We listen to an excerpt from the latest Us & Them, exploring the difference between an early medication called methadone and suboxone, which is often used now.
The post The Differences Between Methadone And Suboxone, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
On this West Virginia Morning, we learn about radioactive materials and other contaminants in solid fracking waste, and the state Legislature is still working its way through next fiscal year’s budget, but Gov. Patrick Morrisey wants the body to follow his lead.
The post Fracking Waste And Sorting Out The State Budget, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
A West Virginia cabinetmaker describes his journey to becoming an accomplished poet. Also, state lawmakers have taken an important step to funding the state’s EMS. And, the Trump administration announced it would roll back a rule on power plant emissions of mercury.
The post From Cabinetmaker To Poet – A Conversation With Steve Scafidi, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Issues with CPS and the state foster care system are persistent. The West Virginia Legislature faces questions on how to correct the problems that arise every year. We spoke with Dels. Jonathan Pinson, R-Mason, and Hollis Lewis, D-Kanawha, on last week’s The Legislature Today to get their take on the issue.
The post Lawmakers Weigh In On Foster Care Needs, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Connie Jordan Green has been writing most of her life. We talk with her about her poems and growing up in a secret city in Tennessee – Oak Ridge. Also, House Finance approved a budget for consideration of the full chamber. And, under a bill passed by Senate Health, pregnant women could have access to a prescription that might reverse the effects of abortion medication in time to save their pregnancies.
The post Writer Talks Growing Up In Secret Appalachian City, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
On this West Virginia Morning, volunteers in Wyoming County have found families recovering from last year's floods are unwilling to declare the damage to their homes. And the latest from the state legislature.
The post Distrust Hampers Flood Recovery Efforts In Wyoming County, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Secretary of State Kris Warner said his office has received a second request from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking unredacted information on hundreds of thousands of registered voters in this state. We recently spoke with him to learn why he’s not turning that information over. Also, high school students from all over the state came to the capitol Tuesday, asking legislators to put money in the budget for smoking cessation programs.
The post Warner Says ‘No’ To US Department Of Justice A Second Time, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Recovering from substance use disorder is hard at the best of times. How did people working on recovery during the February 2025 floods hold on to their sobriety? As we approach the one-year anniversary of those deadly floods, we wanted to check in on this often overlooked issue.
The post How The February 2025 Flood Affected Sobriety Efforts, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
A challenge lawmakers are struggling with this session is how to pay for public schools in a state where there’s falling enrollment, especially in rural counties. Also, the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom explains snow mold.
The post School Funding Needs And Understanding Snow Mold, This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah released "Still + Bright" last year, which featured guests like S.G. Goodman and Billy Strings. Inside Appalachia host Mason Adams spoke with Kiah from her home in Johnson City, Tennessee at that time. We listen to an encore of that conversation.
The post Musician Amythyst Kiah On Album ‘Still + Bright,’ This West Virginia Morning appeared first on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
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