By Kim North, The Intelligencer WHEELING – Wheeling Park High School girls basketball player Alexis Bordas is now in a class all by herself in West Virginia girls hoops history. Bordas has received the highest honor a female basketball player can achieve in the Mountain State for an unprecedented third[Read More…]

By Ainsley Hall, The Journal CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Over 500 people gathered at Washington High School Tuesday evening, where the Jefferson County Planning Commission had its regular meeting and voted to reject the Mountain Pure Water bottling facility concept plan led by Sidewinder Enterprises. This concept plan proposes building[Read More…]

By Katelyn Aluise, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall University could potentially lose $1.4 million in funding for indirect cost recovery for health research as a result of a proposal by the National Institute of Health to reduce facilities and administrative funding. Grant funding caps for research were announced by[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Cecil Roberts, the longtime leader of the United Mine Workers of America union, has announced his retirement. The UMWA International president plans to retire in October after 30 years in that role, the union announced in a news release Tuesday. “I have[Read More…]

By Josh Brown, Williamson Daily News CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia State Board of Education approved a takeover of Mingo County Schools during its regular monthly meeting. The state declared a state of emergency for the county.  During its meeting March 12, the WVDE Office of Accountability reviewed findings[Read More…]

By Suzanne Stewart, The Pocahontas Times DURBIN, W.Va. — Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Hanna Sizemore was the guest speaker at the February 25 Durbin Lions Club meeting, where she talked about the field research she did in the Arctic last year. Sizemore, who is a native of Pocahontas County,[Read More…]

By Samantha Smith, The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU’s Faculty Senate discussed a bill introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates that would remove faculty, staff and student representatives from being able to vote on the WVU Board of Governors at a regular meeting Monday.  The bill, House Bill[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation that would bar certain future and reassigned employees from the state’s classified civil service system and strip them of the right to grievance procedures amid a proposed far-reaching reorganization of state agencies. The House,[Read More…]

By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON (WV News) — A bill defining terms related to sex and gender in West Virginia code completed the legislative process Tuesday. The House of Delegates concurred with a change made in the state Senate removing an amendment in Senate Bill 456, then approved[Read More…]

The Morgan Messenger BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Many local residents were scratching their heads on Saturday morning as they looked at their cars and trucks covered in an unusual sort of dirt pattern. Rain fell on Friday evening and overnight, and delivered an unusual weather phenomenon called “mud rain.” Read[Read More…]