CANAAN VALLEY, W.Va. — The number of birthing hospitals in the state has dropped from 26 to 18 over the last 10 years.
Most recently, the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and Mon Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, both operated by Vandalia Health, ceased delivery services this spring due to ongoing staffing shortages.
Jeff Goode
During this week’s legislative interim meetings at Canaan Valley Resort State Park, Vandalia Health Executive Vice President Jeff Goode told lawmakers when there isn’t

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A statewide organization serving nonprofits brought Appalachian community leaders, federal partners, and entrepreneurs together for a partnership-building event in the Capital City Wednesday.
The West Virginia Community Development Hub hosted the Impact Forum at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development and Glenville State University.
Heather Foster
West Virginia Community Development Hub

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Parkersburg High School soon-to-be senior Brenna Bond was riding in the car with her mom a couple of months ago when they heard a commercial on the radio about the West Virginia Scholar Program. Her mother urged her to apply.
2026 West Virginia Scholar winner Brenna Bond of Parkersburg High School.
“She was like, ‘You might as well take this opportunity. It could be an opportunity of a lifetime,’ and here we are,” Bond said Wednesday after learning she had indeed been chosen

HARMAN, W.Va. — Members of the Harman Education Association have a monumental task ahead of them. Their plan is to have the old Harman School ready to become a private, community micro-school and accept students by September. The process won’t be easy.
“You can imagine, it’s an enormous task to try and get a school up and running in about two months. That’s almost humanly impossible,” said Dan Bucher, President of the Association.
The former county public school was closed at the end of the

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Law enforcement in the Eastern Panhandle had to temporarily become cow wranglers on Wednesday when a brown cow wandered onto busy I-81 in the northbound lanes just before exit 12.
As a precaution, all lanes were shut down just before 10 a.m.  The roadway was reopened a short time later as the cow had already left the interstate and walked into the tree line just off the roadway.
Berkeley County Sheriff Rob Blair says despite initial reports that the cow had been corralled,