Legislation passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 2020 to raise the minimum wage goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was out of town on work trips at least 64 times during her first 42 months in high office, a ...

The store serves people in Salem, Vinton, Roanoke, and Craig who are 150% outside the poverty level ... leaves with a food box from Feeding Southwest Virginia. What makes the Community Christmas ...

The work was funded by a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission’s annual Appalachian Collegiate Research Initiative.

About 10,000 K-12 students from families earning up to twice the federal poverty limit to qualify for free school ... insurance and private donations cover. Southwest Virginia has faced repeated ...

“And these are people with generational poverty and health issues ... Her legacy is deeply rooted in Southwest Virginia, where her mobile clinic service grew to multiple brick-and-mortar health ...

America bid farewell to one of its finest-ever rights activists. Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and sister-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, ...

John Matthew McDowell passed away peacefully Tuesday, Dec. 24, while surrounded by family after a 19-month battle with cancer ...

Kingsolver sets her orphan hero in modern Appalachia, and like Dickens, she gives us a memorably hilarious but tortured life while shining a bruising light on poverty and child ... ecology of a ...

The United Way of Southwest Virginia has raised millions of dollars to help the region recover from Hurricane Helene. The ...

United Way of Southwest Virginia has raised millions of dollars to help communities throughout the Commonwealth continue to ...