Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s foster care plan brings kids back to West Virginia, but it still leaves the state overreliant on group homes.

Lawmakers have just under three weeks to push through legislation to help parents and providers if federal child care rules are reversed. The Biden administration passed a rule that federal subsidies ...

A House proposal to cap the Hope Scholarship sparked pushback as lawmakers grapple with a projected $230 million cost.

Lawmakers want to help ensure kinship families – relatives who take in kids taken from their parents – get paid as much as ...

After saying they would propose $250 million for clean drinking water projects in the coalfields, lawmakers signed on to a ...

Federal officials want to roll back child care funding rules designed to stabilize providers and lower costs for families.

State grants help local agencies prepare land for development, but most of the funding is already committed. Morrisey didn’t budget for more support.

West Virginians are continuing to struggle to afford their power bills. Following repeated rate increases approved by state regulators at the Public Service Commission, residents have had to tighten ...

West Virginia lawmakers are debating how to help rescue financially strapped school systems that educate most of the state’s kids, while pumping more money into private schools. This story first ...

Cabell, proposed spending $34 million raised from medical cannabis sales that is currently tied up in the Treasurer’s Office.

Stark disparities continue to exist in how Black students and low-income students are disciplined in West Virginia schools, according to data released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.