Funding included for WVU, Marshall, WVSOM and numerous other schools and projects WV Press Association Sharing Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted to secure a number of West Virginia priorities in a bipartisan appropriations package, which included the Fiscal Year[Read More…]
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‘Working through the hiccups’: FAFSA errors, changes leave WV students coping with delays
By Roger Adkins, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — College students in West Virginia are facing delays in receiving financial aid offers this year because of setbacks in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid process, education officials say. The Department of Education was addressing a $1.8 billion error in how FAFSA calculates student[Read More…]
West Virginia Sen. Capito unsure why Manchin has moved to block judicial picks
By Charles Young, WV News WASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she doesn’t know why her fellow West Virginia senator has decided to block President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as first reported by Politico, has announced plans to vote against any of the[Read More…]
More elk arriving in West Virginia as part of restoration project
By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has welcomed another 23 elk to the Tomblin Wildlife Management Area in Logan County where they will be evaluated and held for a short period of time before being released into the wild, the[Read More…]
Berkeley Co. school nurses file suit over alleged pay issues
By Toni Milbourne, The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Nurses in the Berkeley County school system have banded together and filed a lawsuit against the Berkeley County Board of Education over alleged pay issues. There are 31 plaintiffs in the suit, including Jennifer Baker, Melissa Bates, Lisa Michele Pumphrey Billings, Lynne[Read More…]
Editorial: Forest Fires
Wildfires Are Burning Thousands of WV Acres The Inter-Mountain Eastern West Virginia is on fire. Days of dry, windy weather supported wildfires that have burned thousands of acres, particularly in Berkeley, Hardy, Hampshire, Morgan and Pendleton counties. According to Assistant State Forester Linda Carnell, who spoke with WV Public Broadcasting,[Read More…]
Justice’s Greenbrier Resort facing state tax liens
By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday he was unaware that West Virginia tax officials had placed several liens on the historic Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs for taxes owed. According to documents filed with the Greenbrier County Clerk’s[Read More…]
EPA, DEP not doing their jobs?: WV groups sue over Lower Guyandotte watershed oversight
By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia conservationists have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying the agency has violated the Clean Water Act in its oversight of a local watershed spanning roughly 100,000 people. Three environmental groups sued the EPA Monday, contending[Read More…]
First responders kept busy by fires over past week
By Stephen Smoot, The Pendleton Times PENDLETON COUNTY, W.Va. — In Franklin, Fort Seybert, and Upper Tract over the past week, four fires kept Pendleton County fire and rescue units busy as they tried to contain flames stirred by springlike temperatures and higher winds. Potentially, the most dangerous fire took[Read More…]
Novelis to close Buckhannon plant
By Brad Johnson, The Inter-Mountain BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — More than 80 workers will be affected by a global company’s announced closure of its Upshur County plant. Novelis ALR Rolled Products announced the planned “total closure” of the plant in a letter to Buckhannon and state officials dated March 15. The letter stated[Read More…]