1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (836+ words) CUNARD, W.Va. — For generations, travelers heading toward the New River at Cunard slowed as they rounded the bend and caught sight of the Coal Run Company Store. Long after the coal camps that built it disappeared, the broad, weathered building…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (839+ words) CLIFFTOP, W.Va. — Every summer, thousands of musicians carrying fiddles, banjos, guitars, mandolins, and dulcimers wind their way up a narrow mountain road in southern West Virginia. They come from nearly every corner of the United States and from countries as…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1089+ words) GANDEEVILLE, W.Va. — In the turbulent years after the Civil War, a remote corner of the border country between Roane and Jackson counties became the scene of one of West Virginia’s least remembered outbreaks of vigilante violence. The mystery deepened years…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1229+ words) Many of these tragedies are remembered locally but remain little known beyond Appalachia. Together, they reveal how geography, industry, and human determination have shaped West Virginia for more than 150 years. The deadliest disaster in West Virginia history did not happen…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1272+ words) PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton remains a defining episode in early American history. Even those with only a passing knowledge of the nation’s founding may remember how the sitting vice president fatally shot Hamilton in…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1184+ words) PAW PAW, W.Va. — Every autumn, a remarkable fruit ripens quietly beneath the forests of Appalachia. It has a creamy texture, a flavor often compared to banana, mango, and vanilla, and a history stretching back thousands of years. Yet many Americans…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (731+ words) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As tourism continues to reshape rural communities across Appalachia, researchers at West Virginia University in Morgantown are helping local leaders answer a difficult question: How can towns welcome more visitors without sacrificing the qualities that make people want…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (708+ words) MOUNT HOPE, W.Va. — Tens of thousands of scouts, volunteers, leaders, and family members are arriving in southern West Virginia this week as Scouting America’s National Jamboree transforms the mountains of the New River Gorge region into one of the nation’s…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (456+ words) Long before remote work became commonplace, we recognized that reporting on an entire state did not require everyone to sit in the same office. It required curiosity, communication, and a shared commitment to telling the stories that matter. For more…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1127+ words) WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia is rarely considered a destination for Catholic pilgrimage. Settled largely by Virginians and Scots-Irish pioneers before later immigrant communities arrived, the Mountain State has long been associated more with frontier Protestantism than with Gothic cathedrals or…...