By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – A multi-million dollar contract for constructing a new section of the King Coal Highway which will connect more parts of Mercer County with each other was announced Monday during a groundbreaking ceremony on the future roadway’s site. Gov. Jim Justice announced the[Read More…]

West Virginia Press Association MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University celebrates its rich Appalachian roots each year with a week of activities that showcases music, food, and arts and crafts from the Appalachian region. Mountaineer Week, now in its 77th year, begins Monday (Nov. 11) and continues through Sunday, Nov. 17.  The[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Williamson Daily News CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Public Service Commission has approved rate hikes to cover pipeline replacement and expansion costs for Mountaineer Gas Co. and Hope Gas Inc. that will extend yearslong trends of bill increases. The PSC on Monday announced that it was[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –  The Secretary of State’s website, GoVoteWV.com, is where unofficial results can be found for West Virginia’s 2024 General Election. This is the state’s only official website where results for statewide, legislative, judicial and local candidates from all 55 counties, as well as results for the proposed Constitutional Amendment will be updated[Read More…]

By Matt Harvey, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Verizon Communications Inc. and Frontier Communications Parent Inc. have filed a joint application with the West Virginia Public Service Commission for Verizon to acquire Frontier. The deal would give Verizon complete control of Frontier West Virginia Inc., Citizens Telecommunications Co. of[Read More…]

The Mountain Statesman WASHINGTON — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Thursday that Army Cpl. Howard Godwin Jr., 22, of Grafton, West Virginia, killed during the Korean War, has been accounted for. Godwin, a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was reported missing[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams for The Intelligencer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — October tax collections for West Virginia’s general revenue budget for the current fiscal year came in nearly four percentage points below estimates for the month, but year-to-date collections only remain barely one point below expectations. According to the monthly tax[Read More…]

Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Appalachian Power, along with Wheeling Power, refiled a base rate review application Friday with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia for its non-fuel base rates which would increase the average monthly bills of residential, commercial and industrial customers. In the filing, the companies[Read More…]

By Tom Markland, The Journal CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Tricia Jackson and Jennifer Krouse, two former Jefferson County commissioners who were criminally charged and removed from office after refusing to attend commission meetings in the fall of 2023, accepted a deal and entered their plea on Friday morning. The two[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Weirton Daily Times CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In what could be his last major piece of legislation, Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill cutting personal income tax rates by 2 percent, bringing the total number of tax cuts and eliminations since taking office in 2017 to[Read More…]