By CASEY JUNKINS with AP dispatches The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — The nation has lost enough coal-fired electricity to power as many as 36 million homes since 2002, a new U.S. Department of Energy study confirms. Last week, the energy department released a report detailing electricity markets[Read More…]
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WV State Parks build extensive car-charging network in green initiative
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As part of a green initiative that includes a switch from incandescent to LED lighting, less mowing and more recycling, West Virginia State Parks is on track to become the nation’s first state parks system to have electric vehicle recharging stations installed[Read More…]
Meet Wheeling’s David Zatezalo, President Trump’s nominee For MSHA Chief
By JOHN McCABE The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — The list of jobs David Zatezalo has held over a 40-year career as a coal miner and coal mining executive is extensive: he’s been a laborer for the United Mine Workers of America; a mine foreman; a general mine[Read More…]
Tiered development would maximize opportunities, Marshall County officials say
By LINDA HARRIS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bob Miller figures there’s more than a little truth in the old maxim, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Miller, a Marshal County commissioner, is convinced West Virginia can maximize its development opportunities by locating shared resources on prime industrial[Read More…]
Civil War re-enactment proves peaceful in St. Marys
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel ST. MARYS, W.Va. — People who came out to the ninth annual Blue and Gray Days in St. Marys over the weekend got to see re-enactors with a love of history recreate the Civil War period from camps to dress to battle re-enactments[Read More…]
Beckley girl heads to national robotics competition
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Daniella Fragile, a 12-year-old seventh-grade girl from Beckley, is a dancer, a basketball player, a young scientist, a future Radford or Duke University graduate, and, most importantly, a future NASA robotics engineer. As Daniella sits in a St. Francis De Sales School[Read More…]
Justice appoints McLaughlin to fill judge seat
Staff report The State Journal Gov. Jim Justice has appointed Debra McLaughlin to serve as judge for the 23rd Judicial Circuit, filling the vacancy created by the death of the Honorable John Yoder. McLaughlin currently resides in Berkeley Springs. She has practiced law in West Virginia since 1999. McLaughlin served[Read More…]
Morrisey adamant on Right to Work during WV Business Summit presentation
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says he will appeal all the way to the United States Supreme Court in the unlikely event West Virginia’s high court upholds an injunction against implementing the state’s right to work law. Arguments[Read More…]
Culturefest to make its way to Pipestem Sept. 7-10
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The 14th annual Culturefest World Music and Arts Festival will take over Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem Sept. 7-10 with a weekend-long immersion in the creative arts. The event will feature three stages of music and dance performances by artists from around[Read More…]
FEMA recovery center hours to change this week
Times West Virginian The FEMA and SBA Disaster Recovery Center serving Marion and Harrison counties located at the Oakhurst Church of Christ in Farmington will change its hours starting Tuesday. The center is open daily to help those whose homes or businesses were affected by the severe storms, flooding,[Read More…]
