When police are fired or allowed to resign in “lieu of termination” for misconduct in West Virginia, they can switch departments. Public records show what happened and where they end up.

An investigation into an anonymous website revealed Caiden Cowger, the Director of the Family Policy Council of West Virginia, set up the site to make claims about candidate Moore Capito’s personal life. Cowger’s role as a member of the Upshur County GOP Executive Committee calls into question the group’s relationship to Capito’s opponent, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

A 2022 report from the US Army Corps of Engineers has identified decades of government development without appropriate precautions as a factor in flooding. Residents are holding out hope that government agencies can help stop the flooding, but are pessimistic.

Charleston police arrested 16 unsheltered people the day before the city’s multi-million-dollar annual festival. Records not only show police coordinated the arrests with the city’s municipal court and event coordinator, but they fit an 18-month trend of police targeting the city’s unsheltered population.

West Virginia politicians try labeling fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction” and are spreading misinformation about it in hopes of bringing back the death penalty.

According to a DHHR email obtained by Dragline, a bill that put the animal tranquilizer on the controlled substance schedule (SB 546) also made the distribution of test strips for it illegal. Without testing, experts say overdose crisis will worsen.

As West Virginia lawmakers passed an abortion ban aimed at “closing the only clinic in the state,” they stirred up an army of supporters, ushering in an increase in financial support for the organization. Despite discontinuing abortion services at that clinic, the Women’s Health Center is expanding the healthcare services it provides in state and is opening a second clinic in Maryland — one of the states with the fewest restrictions on abolition in the nation.

House Minority Leader and President of HD Media, Doug Skaff (D – Kanawha), allegedly directed staff to delete a story about his 2015 gambling scandal from the paper’s website. Reporters who’ve worked under Skaff say his conflicted presence undermines the Pulitzer Prize-winning paper’s integrity.

A new study from ACLU and Human Rights Watch reveals W. Va. leads nation in termination of parental rights.

During a protest outside of President Brad D. Smith’s office, students were invited inside to discuss their own frustrations over the University’s handling of sexual assault cases. After their protests, students sat down with Dragline to discuss the interaction with Marshall’s president and their demands moving forward.

A Dragline survey shows 38 percent of police departments in the state put images of people they’ve arrested on their social media accounts. Departments say it’s a valid form of publicizing the work they do. Critics say it’s a return to the days of government-backed public humiliation.

At the intersection of the overdose crisis and most concerning HIV outbreak in the nation, there is still no cure for stigma.

Despite their progressive reputations, Huntington, Charleston and Morgantown struggle to implement solutions in tackling homelessness.

People who were on Suboxone at the time they were arrested report being denied access to the medication in state jails. Experts say the consequences can be deadly.

A nationwide survey of 45 states showed by 2019, West Virginia was leading the nation for fatal overdoses in jails. Two months after that report was released, the state stopped reporting overdose deaths to the public.

A report from a doctor who has inspected 30 facilities across the country expressed “urgent concern” over what he called “the most dangerous approach to medical isolation I have encountered since the outset of the pandemic.”

Over the past month, an average of 160 people in state custody have been tested daily for COVID-19. That means on any given day, officials are only aware of the COVID-19 status for 1.6% of the more than 10,000 people incarcerated in West Virginia.

As the Delta variant drives Covid-19 to new heights across the state, an outbreak in West Virginia’s North Central Regional Jail has reached 101 active cases. Built for 564, NCRJ currently holds 842 people, making it the state’s most overcrowded facility. As of Friday, one in nine people there had COVID-19.

By only tracking vaccines administered in facilities—not the number of inmates who have been vaccinated—officials with the state’s Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation are missing key data in preventing the spread of Covid-19 according to an expert.

Despite warnings from multiple organizations, city officials ushered in the “most concerning outbreak in the nation” by pressuring the shutdown of the Kanawha Charleston Health Department syringe program. After five years of inaction, officials are voting to make the CDC’s recommended practices illegal.