"The truest meaning of the word 'apocalypse' in that it pulled back the veil and just underscored all of the challenges that we are facing here as a community," Davis told CBS News of the flooding, ...

The current discussion of funding for SNAP has ignored the role of West Virginia and John F. Kennedy in formation of the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCHS) — A West Virginia woman joined several others at the White House on Wednesday calling for attention to poverty in America. Pam Garrison, a member of the West Virginia Poor ...

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - According to U.S. Census Bureau data, child poverty is on the rise in West Virginia. In 2023, 20.1% of all children in the mountain state lived below the poverty line. In ...

Photographer Sydnei Tatum can't shake the images she saw and captured in the aftermath of floods that devastated McDowell County in West Virginia. "I mean, really, it looked like a third world country ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia consistently ranks as one of the five poorest states in the U.S. -- and one local nonprofit is looking to help lower that statistic. Catholic Charities West Virginia ...

Owners are shuttering two newspapers every week, many of them in rural places like Welch, West Virginia. Missy Nester grew up in Welch and bought a paper in 2018 to save it. But she couldn't make the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A new study shows more students are living in poverty now compared to students almost a decade ago. The nonprofit EdBuild analyzed U.S. Census estimates to determine an increase ...

Welch, West Virginia — The flood waters tore through McDowell County in West Virginia so fast in February that Rev. Brad Davis barely had time to grab his two cats before his house was swamped. "The ...