MADISON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey addressed the declining coal industry, the ongoing opioid crisis and law enforcement funding during a roundtable discussion with city and county leaders at the Boone County Sheriff’s Office on Jan. 23.
MADISON — The Lt. Darwin K. Kyle Memorial Bridge officially reopened on Jan. 28, allowing easier travel between the bypass and downtown Madison.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates on Friday advanced a bill to exempt life insurance payouts from being taken during bankruptcy proceedings.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. — You could say Richie Ray’s future is in the toilet.
MADISON — Judge Stacy Nowicki-Eldridge and County Clerk Roger Toney are inviting all Valentines to come to the Boone County Courthouse to get hitched on Feb. 14.
HUNTINGTON — Income tax filing season began this week with a warning from the Internal Revenue Service and tax experts.
CHARLESTON — The Senate Education Committee on Thursday advanced a bill to further address food insecurity among the state’s youth.
CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
CHARLESTON — After some debate, the West Virginia Senate passed a bill Friday to change vehicle inspection requirements to once every two years.
LOGAN, W.Va. — The West Virginia State Police executed a search warrant on the Hot Cup coffee shop in downtown Logan late Friday morning after social media posts alleged sexual misconduct against the shop’s owner, Michael Cline.
CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
CHARLESTON — A bill focusing on early education continues to wind its way through the West Virginia Senate.
DANVILLE — A Mount Gay man was arrested in Danville after West Virginia State Police troopers say they found 1 pound of suspected fentanyl and 12.2 pounds of suspected marijuana in his vehicle.
MADISON — During the Boone County Commission’s regular meeting on Jan. 17, Terry Martin from the Regional Intergovernmental Council shared updates on the potential Mountaineer Drive and Alexis Lane water projects.
MADISON — Eva Mae Walker Chafin, a Cazy native, is living the first full day of her 100th year of life today.
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice’s proposal to cut the personal income tax by 50% over three years is now in the hands of the West Virginia Senate.
CHARLESTON — A state lawmaker wants to see the fiddle named the official instrument of West Virginia.
CHARLESTON — Kroger workers have filed a class-action lawsuit in a Richmond, Virginia, federal court, alleging the company’s faulty payroll system has robbed them of wages.
CHARLESTON — During Wednesday’s Senate floor session, Minority Leader Sen. Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, made a statement decrying two House of Delegates bills that seek to reestablish the death penalty in West Virginia.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Friday that would write Nov. 14, the day of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash, into West Virginia law as an official day of remembrance.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia has settled for $83 million with Walgreens for the pharmacy store chain’s role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the U.S. state with the most per capita overdose deaths, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday.
CHARLESTON — Two bills that would expand the powers of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources are headed to the governor’s desk, just over a week after the Senate approved them before making the bill text public.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that could give medical personnel authority to carry firearms while working with law enforcement.
CHARLESTON — A nonprofit chemical and advanced software firm in the South Charleston Regional Technology Park is morphing into a private, employee-owned concern.
Cindy was one of many West Virginians who thought a storage unit would be a quick fix and save the day for the assortment of good stuff she didn’t have enough space for at her house.
INSTITUTE, W.Va. — West Virginia State University Extension Services’ Agriculture and Natural Resources team will host a Garden Calendar Workshop Thursday, Jan. 19, as part of their Community Garden Workshop Series.
CHARLESTON — The process of becoming a teacher is set to become a little bit less daunting in West Virginia.
CHARLESTON — During his State of the State address Wednesday, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said he wants to invest in minority and disadvantaged communities.
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High natural gas prices have fueled severance tax collections, contributing to the state’s overall good financial position, but collections may slow as prices drop in the second half of the year, West Virginia Department of Revenue officials told lawmakers last week.
HUNTINGTON — Marshall University’s College of Arts and Media has announced it will kick off the Birke Fine Arts Symposium on Monday, Jan. 9, with activities continuing throughout the 2023 spring semester.
MADISON — During the regular Madison City Council meeting on Jan. 9, Boone County Commission President Brett Kuhn presented two AED devices to the city.
CHARLESTON — A committee of West Virginia senators pushed forward a bill Thursday that would give medical personnel authority to carry firearms while working with law enforcement.
CHARLESTON — On the ninth anniversary of a Charleston specialty chemicals producer’s spill into the Elk River that left 300,000 people without clean drinking water, Dasani water bottles were distributed without ado at an energy talk in Charleston Monday.
FOSTER — On Jan. 12, Green Power Motor Company held a press conference at the bus garage in Foster to present an all-electric school bus to Boone County Schools.
CHARLESTON — The Republican-supermajority West Virginia Senate passed two bills Thursday morning that it introduced just moments before without making the text of the bills publicly available until hours after they had passed.
CHARLESTON — The plan to fill the gap in direct-care workers involves a familiar concept — bringing retirees back into the workforce.
CHARLESTON — The first drops of Gov. Jim Justice’s tax-cut “tsunami” trickled into the state Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers heard the budget plan the governor hopes to use to back the reduction.
In his debut novel, “When The Center Held True,” author Corley Dennison skillfully uses the microcosm of a newly integrated high school football team to speak to the larger issues of race and morality in the 1960s. The message, however, is just as timely today.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia has the right policies to help children transitioning out of foster care, but they are not being effectively applied, a top legislative advisor told lawmakers.
CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.
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CHARLESTON — A bill to add regulations on recovery homes found new life after it died in the final hours of the 2022 West Virginia Legislative session, as senators rubber-stamped it to open the 2023 session.
CHARLESTON — Charleston Department Store, in business for 102 years on Charleston’s West Side, announced Thursday it would close this spring.
CHARLESTON — Leaders of the House and Senate promised impactful tax cuts for West Virginians and bold change in the Department of Health and Human Resources during panel discussions Friday at the West Virginia Press Association’s Legislative Lookahead at the Culture Center Theater.
MADISON — Although he now lives in Maryland, Mike Graham is a Boone County native with a lifelong passion for research.
HUNTINGTON — Derrick Evans, the former West Virginia House of Delegates member who participated in the 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol, announced Friday he is running for Congress in 2024.
DANVILLE — Samuel Nunnery, 45, was arrested in Danville on Dec. 21 and charged with burglary and violation of protective order.
FRENCH CREEK, W.Va. — While most bridges cost millions of dollars to design and build, West Virginia is home to at least two spans that took shape at no cost to taxpayers — but required millions of years to complete.
DANVILLE — A Huntington man was arrested on multiple charges following a traffic stop in Danville on Dec. 30.
MADISON — During the Boone County Commission meeting on Jan. 3, Boone County Sheriff Chad Barker requested a $5,000 salary increase for his deputies.
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