By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Lawmakers received a briefing Sunday on opening West Virginia’s occupational licensing regulations to allow workers from other states to more easily work in the state and address shortages in ophthalmologists. Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Government[Read More…]

Randolph, Upshur vets to visit D.C. By Taylor McKinnie, The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Randolph and Upshur County residents will be among the 100 military veterans getting to visit Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14 through the Clarksburg Honor Flight to see war monuments and memorials that have been built in[Read More…]

By Fred Pace, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington’s wastewater treatment plant is the state’s largest, according to Brian Bracey, executive director of the Huntington Water Quality Board. “We maintain an estimated 340 miles of sewers, some of which can be up to 72 inches in diameter, and many of[Read More…]

By Logan Cottrell, The Exponent Telegram FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Saturday afternoon was full of good time and rocket launches at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Education Resource Center in Fairmont. Students from the West Virginia School of the Deaf and Blind got the opportunity to participate in three different[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After almost a year of negotiations, jobs will not be lost or moved from Charleston’s postal facility at the Southridge shopping complex. Several news releases, including one from the United States Postal Service and another from Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., detailed how[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Randall Reid-Smith, the cabinet secretary for the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, defended the process behind the mural project in the upper rotunda of the State Capitol Building in a statement following a lawsuit filed[Read More…]

By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The board of the West Virginia First Foundation approved a plan Thursday that will see its first grant awards from opioid settlement funds distributed by the end of the year. The foundation will award a total of $19.2 million in Initial[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – A more than $25 million federal grant announced Thursday by the U.S. Department of Transportation will help the city of Bluefield make transportation easier for pedestrians, bicycle riders, wheelchair users and others who rely on local roadways. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete[Read More…]

By Craig Howell, The Weirton Daily Times WEIRTON, W.Va. — A new program set to launch later this month is designed to aid eligible veterans in West Virginia who are looking to purchase their first home. State Treasurer Riley Moore, state Sen. Ryan Weld, R-Brooke, and representatives of the West[Read More…]