By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Inter-Mountain Charleston – A new task force planning celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is not competing with a commission created by the Legislature five years ago to do the same thing, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. During a[Read More…]

By Micah M. Mocnik For The Register-Herald Beckley — The Beckley Art Center auction turned donated collections into community support this week. The Center hosted an art auction Thursday evening to raise money for the center and Hope in the Mountains, a faith-based, non-denominational nonprofit serving communities in southern West Virginia.[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it has designated portions of Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties perched along the Virginia border as “critical habitat,” vital to the recovery of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee. Nearly all of the designated West Virginia land lies within the Monongahela[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia Deep water worries have long been a way of life in West Virginia. People throughout the Mountain State, namely in the poverty-challenged southern coalfields, have contended with discolored water that stains their household appliances and clothes, leave them with skin rashes and send them trekking up[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Intelligencer Charleston – Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family provided a redacted term sheet for a possible new loan to pay off remaining debts owed by the Greenbrier Resort and related properties to a federal judge by a Wednesday deadline while seeking[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 36 days away, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby announced new merchandise for West Virginians to buy and called on state communities to ring their[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia Imagination-inspired artwork by nearly 200 students at Charleston’s Edgewood Elementary School is now on display on a series of 30-inch diameter metal discs that spell out “EDGEWOOD” and hang from a tennis court fence at Edgewood Park, at the intersection of Edgewood Drive and Washington Street[Read More…]

By Maj. Gen. Bill Crane, retired guest commentaryFor The Register-Herald National security doesn’t begin at the Pentagon. It begins at the factories and power lines that keep America’s defense industry running. It begins right here in West Virginia. According to the U.S. Department of Defense’s “Defense Spending by State” report,[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia If the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision makes 2026 the last year of competition for Bridgeport High School sophomore Becky Pepper-Jackson, then the 15-year-old transgender athlete made the most of her final season of interscholastic sports in West Virginia. With a personal shot put best of 38 feet,[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — State Sen. Joey Garcia, D-13, owns up to his vote on House Bill 2014. HB 2014 set the rules by which microgrids that power data centers would be regulated, as well as created rules governing how tax money collected from data centers[Read More…]