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This September, the inaugural Foxfire Film Festival will screen documentaries from around the world, feature a student ...
We continue our encore broadcast season of Mountain Stage with an episode that was recorded live at the Joan C. Edwards ...
The West Virginia Board of Education announced Monday afternoon it will pursue litigation against Secretary of State Kris Warner after he rejected a policy the board approved during a special meeting ...
This week, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder often end up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, one year after the Mountain Valley Pipeline went into ...
On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes American Patchwork Quartet, Kyshona, The Brother Brothers, and Stephanie Lambring to the historic Carnegie Hall in ...
Square dance calling — the spoken instructions said over the music — makes participation easy. But there are other aspects — like the prevalence of gendered language such as “ladies and gents” — that ...
Gov. Patrick Morrisey committed to maintaining state Medicaid funds for the most vulnerable Monday during a dedication of a West Virginia home health care company’s new corporate office. Morrisey ...
This week, Inside Appalachia, dinos fight Civil War soldiers at a theme park throwback — Dinosaur Kingdom II in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Also, one person’s roadside weed is another’s “golden” ...
One hundred and ten years ago, there was a murder, payroll robbery and posse chase through the hills of Mingo County. West Virginia Public Broadcasting has reached back to the golden age of radio to ...
Two former correctional officers from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, were sentenced Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of a pretrial detainee, ...
Across the country, poor and largely Black neighborhoods were bulldozed and replaced with new highways and civic centers in the 20th century. That concept is known as urban renewal — and it tore ...
Singer-songwriter Walter DeBarr is using his unique voice and turbulent past to create and spread a heartfelt message across Appalachia. Growing up a black man in mostly-white Buchannon, WV, DeBarr ...