By Rebecca Hempleman, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s honeybees population decline is estimated at about 40% this year, according to the West Virginia Department of Agriculture. A drought last year, bad weather and an invasive species called the Varroa mite all have led to a record high number[Read More…]

By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram ROANOKE, W.Va. (WV News) — Work on the future site of the West Virginia Consolidated State Laboratory facility officially got underway Tuesday, according to the project manager. The $250 million, 288,000-square-foot facility is expected to be completed by spring 2028, said Rodney Pauley of[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At an interim legislative session meeting Sunday, a panel of West Virginia lawmakers got an update from the head of the state Office of Energy on a Morrisey administration reassessment of the state’s economic development strategy. But the meeting yielded more questions[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey said that all West Virginia National Guard personnel in Qatar are accounted for and safe following retaliatory bombing by Iran of an air base after the U.S. bombed suspected nuclear facilities in Iran. In a statement[Read More…]

By Charles Young, WV News ROANOKE, W.Va. (WV News) — State lawmakers were advised to be wary of some upcoming base-building budget items during interim committee meetings Monday morning. Dr. Peter Shirley, deputy secretary of the state Department of Revenue, who addressed a meeting of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee[Read More…]

By Eric Ayres, The Intelligencer WHEELING — Representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in flood-ravaged areas of Ohio County gathering information for preliminary damage assessments as the area awaits a federal disaster declaration from the president. Local officials held a flood recovery update on Monday in Wheeling to[Read More…]

By Cameron Maynard, Coal Valley News MADISON, W.Va. — Boone County Circuit Court Judge Stacy Nowicki-Eldridge was recently named Judge of the Year by the WV Association for Justice, and it’s an honor she says she was overwhelmed by. Not only overwhelmed, but also a little speechless, which she said[Read More…]

By Olivia Haught, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An extreme heat warning has been issued for most of West Virginia from noon Sunday through Wednesday evening. Expect dangerously hot conditions with heat index values topping 100 degrees. Heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high humidity events. This could[Read More…]

By Cassidy Roark for The Intelligencer WHEELING, W.Va. — As flooding surged across parts of West Virginia nine days ago, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources deployed one of its crucial and highly trained emergency tools, the Swift Water Rescue units. Sergeant Dennis Feazell, the DNR’s statewide Swift Water[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN – A $9 million federal grant to the state Economic Development Department recently got DOGE’d. But the department and Gov. Patrick Morrisey both failed to answer questions about it. The $9,011,588 grant came from the U.S Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information[Read More…]