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You can help 3 historic nonprofit organizations raise funding needed to host one-year Preserve WV AmeriCorps members.  Through this program, Preserve WV AmeriCorps members manage volunteers for their sites...

There is a constant murmur among the leaders of West Virginia bemoaning the outward migration of our state’s young talent.  While our economy suffers, our brightest students look for work in Pittsburgh, DC,...

West Virginians—and everyone who loves West Virginia—I have a small but very important favor to ask: This month, take a few minutes to tell the world what it is you love about our state. West...

Marshall University’s new director of military and veterans affairs may not have had a long career in the military, but he certainly knows the challenges military and veteran students and dependents face on...

When 15-year-old Addison Leaberry asked to meet with Marshall University’s President Jerry Gilbert last fall, she had no idea he would agree to meet. She also had no idea that he would take her...

For the past 10 months, I have woken up each day to the beautiful view of the state capitol directly across the Kanawha River. To be more specific, I was waking up in the freshman dorms at the University of...

Chasing The Powhatan Arrow Firefighter Davina Clayton Risks Her Life to Save Others Other stories in the series can be found here “You have to have some ability to take risks. You have to take risks...

Chasing The Powhatan Arrow Lawyer Peter Richardson talks about the challenges in his city Find Part One Here While in town, I called on an old Virginia Tech classmate, Peter Richardson, who works in a...

International Award Winning nutrition writer Gary Taubes Joins West Virginia health leaders at Try This for Health Professionals Day June 1 Piggybacking on the fourth annual Try This West Virginia...

The 29-room Henderson Hall mansion, located at Williamstown, sits on a terrace overlooking the Ohio River. The house, completed in 1859 by G. W. Henderson, counts among its many visitors the likes of John...

Mayor Tom Cole discusses his city in decline. A MUTUAL FRIEND put me in touch with Bluefield’s Mayor Thomas Cole, whom I met in a new restaurant he owned in downtown Bluefield, a block or so from the NS...

Addressing the Misconceptions of Organ Donation Dressed up, Justin Cowley looks like everyone else. And in many ways, he is a typical, thriving 28-year-old. He turned his love for horses into his own equine...

What does it mean to be human? Ride a bike? Talk to people and eat food? Have feelings? All of these thing are true, humanity consists of the normal day to day things. But humanity isn't just a breathing,...

This story courtesy of a partnership with the great folks at The West Virginia Community Development Hub. Entrepreneurship is the heartbeat of a small community. It defines the look and feel of downtown. In...

This story is courtesy of Vandaleer partner Generation West Virginia. “upThink” is: “a new email series designed by young people for young people around topics that matter to...

This story courtesy of a partnership with the great folks at The West Virginia Community Development Hub. When a class at Pineville Middle School (above) started working on a project for the Samsung...

By Barbara Grigg This story originally appeared on www.wvexecutive.com. Given limited resources and the exponential nature of unfettered animal reproduction, West Virginia taxpayers currently spend about...

Story courtesy of Vandaleer partner West Virginia Public Broadcasting You can listen to the full story below. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wvpn/audio/2017/03/PODCAST_IA_0303Veterans.mp3   Eric...

When I first moved to West Virginia, I didn’t understand the strange sense of pride the people here seemed to hold for their state. I came from the West, where everything is spread further apart, and...

Will someone explain this to me, please? Our timber was the first to go. Two thousand acres were clear-cut, and...