Tiny Wardensville, W.Va., has never been quite the same since a gay D.C. power couple moved there and began jazzing up the town.

With swastikas in the news, this poignant, ultimately sweet essay comes by way of a West Virginia native who grew up Jewish here and had her own run-ins with swastikas.

A WaPo reporter heads deep into West Virginia’s outlaw weed world to profile a farmer busted at his craft and how he hopes for a niche in the state’s new medical marijuana market.

However you feel about West Virginia’s only billionaire and its current governor, Jim Justice, this noteworthy story by Elaina Plott reads like a movie that’s both tragic and inspirational.