Opioids accounted for 86 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the state with the highest overdose mortality rate.

By Stephen Smoot Over the past month, the United States Census Bureau has released updated state and local profiles, as well ...

DURING SCREENING SEASON, which runs from March to December, LUCAS sets off on Mondays from the cancer institute in Morgantown ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that in May of this year, 717,000 jobs ...

New census data confirms that Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads are continuing to lose people, but the influx of new residents into rural Virginia is keeping the state on the plus side.

At the start of a new decade, Virginia is a more racially and ethnically diverse state, albeit one that is growing very slowly, new census data shows.

There’s something both fascinating and terrifying about standing in the shadow of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia – a massive stone fortress where the line between history ...

Visual Capitalist reimagined the U.S. map scaling states according to population data pulled from the Census Bureau's 2024 data.

President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.