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Workers at an Institute chemical plant weren’t required to wear respirators or carry gas monitors that could have warned them about toxic fumes before a leak killed two employees and injured more than a dozen others earlier this year, according to federal investigators.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
West Virginia is one of the deadliest states for house fires, killing an average of 32 people per year between 2009 and 2023.
An audit of the State Fire Commission in December of 2025 noted that the commission hadn’t compiled a...
Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for former patients at her pulmonary rehabilitation clinic in Norton, Virginia.
“Each one of these represents a life that’s gone because of black lung,” Freeman explained ...
YAWKEY— For more than two years, Helen Swire Comer put her own life on hold.
The Lincoln County resident quit her job managing a bank to care for her aging parents, who wanted to spend their final years at home instead of in a nursing facility.
Her nights were often interrupted by emergency room visits and checking on her parents, leaving her exhausted ...
On one winter night at the beginning of 2025, more than 1,900 people in West Virginia were staying the night in shelters or on the streets.
That number comes from the federally mandated Point in Time count...