CHARLESTON, W.Va. – State Treasurer John Perdue’s unclaimed property division returned more than $12 million to West Virginia rightful owners in fiscal 2017, preliminary records show. Initial calculations show the division returned $12.4 million in the 2017 fiscal year ending June 30. The total came on 8,112 claims. “Each year[Read More…]
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WVPA Convention 2017: Reserve rooms today
Reserve your rooms today CANAAN VALLEY, W.Va. — Registration for the West Virginia Press Association’s 2017 Convention, Aug. 4-5 is open. “West Virginia: Adapting to Marketplace Changes” is the theme of the West Virginia Press Association’s 2017 Convention, Aug. 3-5. The WVPA invites its 70 member newspapers and guests to Canaan[Read More…]
Judge wants changes to WV water crisis legal settlement
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge late this afternoon declined to grant preliminary approval to a $151 million settlement of the class-action litigation over the January 2014 water crisis, saying he wanted changes made to the deal before it is published for review by[Read More…]
Energy Secretary tours Longview Power Plant, says West Virginians have a ‘friend’ in Trump
By CHARLES YOUNG The Exponent Telegram MAIDSVILLE, W.Va. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry told West Virginians they have a friend in President Donald Trump while touring a power plant near Morgantown Thursday morning. “The people of West Virginia, who make their living in the coal mines and running[Read More…]
Perry: Don’t take coal ‘off the table’
By CARTER WALKER Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Secretary of Energy Rick Perry made his first official visit to West Virginia on Thursday, touring some of the state’s energy facilities. Perry began the day with a tour of Longview Power Plant, a coal plant in Monongalia County. Longview officials[Read More…]
W.Va. among states most harmed by GOP health care plan
By LINDA COMINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — West Virginia ranks sixth in the nation among states projected to be harmed the most under Senate Republicans’ proposed health care plan, according to a new report. In an article released by the Economic Policy Institute and titled “Health[Read More…]
$150 million plant coming to Eastern Panhandle
By TIM COOK The Journal RANSON, W.Va. –A Denmark company has selected an old apple orchard in the city of Ranson as its home for a new 463,000-square-foot manufacturing plant that will produce high-performance industrial insulation and bring about 150 new jobs to the city and Jefferson County. Roxul Inc.[Read More…]
Kentucky concrete firm to expand, create 130 jobs
By DAVID E. MALLOY The Herald-Dispatch WURTLAND, Ky. — Wright-Mix Material Solutions will create 130 jobs in Greenup County as part of a concrete company’s $8.5 million investment, according to Gov. Matt Bevin. The company, with operations in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, will locate at a former dye plant at[Read More…]
WVU Medicine adds 28-day inpatient drug treatment center in Morgantown
By CYNTHIA McCLOUD The State Journal MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A new inpatient residential drug treatment facility in Monongalia County will be the first of its kind in the state when it is completed. WVU Medicine will lease and operate the facility, which will have 32 residential treatment beds and 12[Read More…]
Local businesses welcome return of Greenbrier Classic
By TINA ALVEY The Register-Herald WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Stormy weather early this week set a soggy stage for the resumption of The Greenbrier Classic after last year’s PGA Tour event was canceled following a flood of near-biblical proportions. But the golfers’ bane this year turned out to be[Read More…]
