By Fred Pace, The Herald Dispatch BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — While an ongoing closure at the region’s Target store has inconvenienced shoppers, it has also led to safety concerns in Barboursville. One resident in the Meadowcreek subdivison, just outside Barboursville village limits, said she has some concerns regarding the hill slip[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A day after it was announced that properties at the Greenbrier Sporting Club owned by Gov. Jim Justice were set to go on the auction block, Justice urged the public not to worry about his businesses, while Justice’s[Read More…]

By Ron Allen, Hurricane Breeze Newspaper HURRICANE, W.Va. — The annual ‘Polar Plunge’ at Hurricane City Park produced $22,000 for the support of the Special Olympics program and on Saturday, February 3, John Corbett, Special Olympics WV Head, reported that 112 brave souls put fear aside and jumped into a[Read More…]

By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There are now multiple correctional facilities in West Virginia operating with zero staffing vacancies, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday. Southern Regional Jail and Correctional Facility in Raleigh County, which had a 30% vacancy rate in September, now has a full staff,[Read More…]

West Virginia Press Association Staff Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday, took steps to make it easier for West Virginia landowners to open their property for recreational use by the public. The committee substitute for SB 577, which was first introduced by Sen. Mark Maynard, R-Wayne,[Read More…]

Charleston Gazette-Mail It’s encouraging to see the West Virginia Legislature take another shot at revitalizing communities across the state devastated by the decline of the coal industry. Hopefully, the effort won’t run out of momentum. House Bill 5223 would establish a council to focus on economic development in Boone, Logan,[Read More…]

West Virginia Press Association Staff Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Wednesday marks the third anniversary of Black Policy Day (BPD) in West Virginia’s capital city. Developed from the responses collected from a 2020 questionnaire published by Black By God: The West Virginian – the state’s only Black newspaper – BPD provides[Read More…]

By Autumn Shelton, West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. – On Tuesday, the House Committee on Political Subdivisions moved along a bill that would give mayors in West Virginia’s smallest towns the ability to serve as chief of police, and another bill intended to limit municipalities’ ability to retain revenue[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice’s Greenbrier Sporting Club property has been slated for auction as a Virginia bank looks to collect on hundreds of millions of dollars of debt Justice and his family have admitted they owe it. A Gazette-Mail legal advertisement Tuesday listed[Read More…]