By Barbie Layton, The Jackson Star & Herald SANDYVILLE, W.Va. — From driving a school bus to competing in a 1964 Ford Falcon, Diana Casto is at home in either option. A Jackson County native and school bus driver, Casto, who graduated from Ripley High School in 1995, grew up[Read More…]

By Damian Phillips, WV News CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Worrying data about U.S. mines continues to come to light. In October, the federal Office of the Inspector General reported that the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration failed to adequately report or complete nearly 1,600 mandatory mine inspections between Fiscal Years[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Attorneys for Gov. Jim Justice, trying to make the case why he should be dismissed from a federal class action lawsuit over conditions in West Virginia’s jails and prisons, argued last week that inmates are trying to put[Read More…]

By Jack Walker, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Coming expansions to facial recognition software in Marion County Schools aim to notify administrators when a registered sex offender sets foot on school property. Rank One Computing, a Colorado-based company that specializes in facial recognition technology, plans to add the function[Read More…]

Hospital celebrates joining health system By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Officials and employees alike celebrated “Vandalia Day” Monday as the agreement has been finalized for Davis Health System to join CAMC Health System and Mon Health System as part of Vandalia Health. A Vandalia Day Celebration was[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a final rule targeting a kind of harmful air pollution that has been disproportionately pervasive in West Virginia. The EPA’s final rule released Saturday for gas and oil operations is designed to significantly lower methane emissions —[Read More…]

By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph WASHINGTON, DC — Calling it a matter of national security, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., wants border security issues to be included in an appropriations bill for Israel, Ukraine and Tawain. Capito, who has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s immigration[Read More…]

By Destiney Dingess, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Huntington-area residents who want to try an electric car free for two weeks will get their chance soon. Huntington is one of the first two locations in West Virginia participating in a Tennessee Tech University project sponsored by the U.S. Department of[Read More…]

By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced he would not run for reelection, most pundits declared it a foregone conclusion that the election would be decided in the Republican primary pitting Gov. Jim Justice against Congressman Alex Mooney, R-W.Va. Most media (on the national level, The Guardian being[Read More…]

By Tyler Kennett, WV News WHEELING, W.Va — It’s hard to bet against Dave Walker when he’s coaching Martinsburg football. He’s built different. “You can tell how smart he is,” Martinsburg quarterback Murphy Clement said of Walker’s return to Martinsburg in 2023. “He’s been around for a while. You notice[Read More…]