Superintendent says board will honor governor’s executive order By Katelyn Aluise, The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON — Several concerned residents showed up to speak at the West Virginia Board of Education’s public meeting Wednesday about religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions possibly being allowed in public schools in the coming year. Although state[Read More…]

By Spencer Ripchik, Parkersburg News and Sentinel MORGANTOWN — Michael T. Benson, the new president of West Virginia University, took a tour of an architecturally impressive Reynolds Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Benson walked down the halls guided by Josh Hall, the Dean of the John Chambers College of Business and[Read More…]

By Ainsley Hall, The Journal SHEPHERDSTOWN — Shepherd University celebrated the groundbreaking of its new dining hall and multipurpose building on Wednesday. Located on the west side of the Shepherd campus near the intramural fields, this project will include state-of-the-art dining facilities, along with new locker rooms and a weight[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge on Tuesday granted a request from a Kanawha County man who works at a Raleigh County mine for an order to restore the respiratory health division of a federal research agency that studies worker safety after sweeping cuts from[Read More…]

By Liz Beavers, Mineral Daily News and Tribune KEYSER, W.Va. (WV News) – Although heavy rain had been steadily falling over the area since the early-morning hours, the rising flood waters came swiftly and with a vengeance Tuesday … and took many by surprise. Mineral County Office of Emergency Services[Read More…]

By Brett Dunlap, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG — The idea of making police officers more visible in schools across the state was the focus of a visit by Gov. Patrick Morrisey to Parkersburg on Tuesday. Morrisey was at Gihon Elementary School to have a ceremonial bill signing for[Read More…]

By Charles Young, WV News BRIDGEPORT (WV News) — Navigating the current climate of economic uncertainty brought on by constantly changing tariffs is akin to “driving through fog,” said Tom Barkin, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Barkin, addressing a meeting of the West Virginia Business[Read More…]

By Destiney Dingess, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court on Monday declined to answer a certified question in the years-long opioid case in the lawsuit by Huntington and Cabell County against drug companies AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. In its 3-2 vote, the Supreme Court sent the[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian BUCKHANNON — A couple of weeks ago, West Virginia Wesleyan College professor Emily Ziebarth attended what she characterized as a strange meeting. The school’s administration, she said, told the gathered faculty and staff they would not be told who this year’s commencement speaker was. [Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN – Several hundred people turned out at the Erickson Alumni Center Monday afternoon for an open house to learn about the proposed NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic Resiliency Link project. They talked with NextEra employees and viewed the rows of posters displaying the possible[Read More…]