CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice’s sixth State of the State address since taking office in 2017 will have to wait due to testing positive for COVID-19. The West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates announced Wednesday there would be no joint evening session of the Legislature because ...

CHARLESTON – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday state officials will send a letter to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeking permission to offer a fourth COVID vaccine dose to those in the state. Under West Virginia's plan, the state would provide the shots to ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University is returning to a policy of requiring masks to be worn indoors on campus and has ordered students, faculty and staff to verify their vaccination status due to a surge in coronavirus cases statewide. The university said in a news release that ...

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12. Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators on Monday decided they're also warranted ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in ...

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Rest assured, kids of all ages: Santa's coming this Christmas Eve, and a second holiday with COVID-19 won't stop him. That's the word from the joint U.S.-Canadian military operation that for 66 years has been tracking Jolly Old St. Nicholas on his ...