The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”

War, family histories, and place.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.

Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.

Reckoning with the legacy of the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster.