CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's attorney general is joining with others around the country to support federal legislation to help cut down on illegal robocalls. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a news release that his office receives frequent calls from residents ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Jim Justice says West Virginia has added $12.2 million in revenue to the state coffers last month. Justice announced February's revenue collections Monday. He says the state is "knocking it out of the park" but adds that "we still have a lot of people to ...
HELEN, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection says coal dust from an abandoned mine might be what's blackening a stream that runs through Helen. The Register-Herald reports the agency says the discolored water staining the Berry Branch stream is coming from a ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Facebook says it's going to help expand broadband internet in West Virginia. The social media company announced a plan Monday to build a high-capacity fiber optic cable network in the state that internet providers will then be able to access. "It's almost like an ...
By ADAM BEAM and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — On the day a Republican state lawmaker was to present his bill on how teacher pension funds would be managed, Kentucky teachers closed six public school districts so they could pack the committee room in ...
By JOHN RABY, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia Capitol staffer is disputing anti-Muslim comments a lawmaker said she made in response to an Islamophobic display outside the House of Delegates chamber. Anne Lieberman issued a statement Sunday on Facebook, two ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An anti-Muslim poster outside the West Virginia House of Delegates chamber falsely connecting a freshman congresswoman to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has drawn strong rebukes from local and national lawmakers, while causing ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia House of Delegates has passed its version of the state budget for 2019-2020 that includes funding for teacher raises. The House voted 92-5 Saturday afternoon on the $4.6 billion spending bill. The Charleston Gazette Mail reports a key difference ...
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Supreme Court will conduct a civics education program next month in Berkeley County. The court says in a news release the justices will hear arguments in two cases April 9 at the Morgan County Courthouse in Berkeley Springs. The arguments also ...
W.Va. gov sends help to county with poor road conditions KINGWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has directed a highways agency to assess poor road conditions in a county that declared a state of emergency last year. Justice says in a news release that a team from the Division ...
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request to reconsider a ruling throwing out a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, including parts of the Appalachian Trail. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Dominion Energy said Tuesday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal after a lower court refused to reconsider a ruling tossing out a permit that would have allowed the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia House is set to vote on a bill to expand mental health services in schools. Delegates are expected to take up the measure Wednesday. Roane County Del. Martin Atkinson's bill would require counties to hire at least one school psychologist for every ...
NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The federal government has provided $1.4 million to repair West Virginia roads that were damaged in storms last spring. The funding is through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's public assistance grant program. The repairs are to be made to roads in ...
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JOHN RABY, Associated Press Teachers in Oakland, California, hit the picket lines just as West Virginia teachers went back to class in a kind of coast-to-coast tag-team display of the national teacher unrest that in many places has moved beyond pay to politics, tackling ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Senate has decided not to immediately consider a bill to raise pay for teachers, school service workers and state police. The Republican-led Senate on Saturday rejected a motion to take up the bill that the House of Delegates passed ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A building at Marshall University will retain its name after a Confederate Army general. The Marshall Board of Governors on Thursday voted to keep the building as Jenkins Hall, named after Marshall Academy graduate Albert Gallatin Jenkins. The announcement came ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Appalachian Regional Commission says it is funding eight projects in West Virginia as part of job retention and expansion efforts in coal communities. The commission announced $22.8 million in funding for 33 projects in nine Appalachian states Thursday. The ...
By AUDREY STANTON-SMITH, The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Nearly 37 years ago, critically acclaimed photographer Builder Levy stepped into a Stotesbury home and captured an image that would capture the heart of Appalachia. It was a Sunday morning, Memorial Day weekend, and Levy — ...
By JOHN RABY, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Unions for West Virginia teachers ended their two-day strike Wednesday night after lawmakers did not act on a doomed, broad-based education bill. Leaders of three unions representing teachers and school service personnel said at a news ...