As financial aid for hospitals begins to be deployed across the country, some of the rural administrators worry it’s only a temporary fix, not a long term solution. Across the country, hospitals are seeing their share of more than $100 billion in federal stimulus money show up in their bank […]

When the coronavirus pandemic reached Appalachian Ohio, the first thing My Sister’s Place, a domestic violence agency which serves three counties in the state, did was make room.  The shelter for adults and children quickly found alternative housing for many families in need. Now the shelter has enough space so […]

Two infectious-disease experts say reopening industries that don’t allow social distancing could cause hotspots.  While larger urban areas may be seeing the number of coronavirus cases slow, cases in rural areas are just beginning, two experts said during a briefing from the Infectious Diseases Society of America Tuesday. During the […]

At 8:15 every weekday morning, the Clarksburg Mission’s staff circles up their chairs to share gratitude. It’s generally thankfulness for something that happened within the past 24 hours, big or small– help from dorm residents in moving furniture, a kind word from a colleague, a new day. Desi Underwood, who […]

You can still find West Virginians sporting WW2 and Korean War vet hats, wars that were fought more than 70 years ago, as well as hats representing Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 145,000, or nearly 10 percent, of the state’s population have served their country. Over […]

The number of rural infections is a fraction of the metropolitan number. But through April 1, the rural cases were doubling at a faster rate than in metropolitan areas. A number of organizations have been warning that COVID-19 infections could not only be more common but also impact rural areas more than large […]