By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal mine regulators didn’t complete more than 1,500 mandatory mine safety and health inspections over a three-year period, according to a new audit report, a finding that has significant implications in coal-heavy West Virginia. The Mine Safety and Health Administration did not[Read More…]
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Berkeley Springs State Park getting a facelift
By Trish Rudder, The Morgan Messenger Berkeley Springs, W.Va. — Upgrading features in Berkeley Springs State Park to save stone walls, improve water drainage and finish better sidewalks has been on the local wish list since before 2018, when the Berkeley Springs State Park Foundation began fundraising for such efforts.[Read More…]
Manchin congratulates Beverly student
By Brad Johnson, executive editor, The Inter-Mountain BEVERLY, W.Va. — A Beverly Elementary School student has won the 2023 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree essay contest. The essay of Ethan Reese, a Beverly fourth-grader, was chosen the winner out of more than 400 entries from across the state, U.S. Sen. Joe[Read More…]
More than 150 attend annual North Central West Virginia Business Summit
By Charles Young, WV News BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — More than 150 stakeholders of the region’s business community attended the eighth annual North Central West Virginia Bridges Without Boundaries Business Summit Tuesday at the Bridgeport Conference Center. The day’s events included talks from West Virginia University’s Dr. John Deskins and Mountaintop[Read More…]
Media Advisory: Leadership WV visiting West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine on Thursday; media invited to Lewisburg campus
LEWISBURG, W.Va. — The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) has issued the following media advisory: Members of the media are invited to attend the visit of the 2023 Class of Leadership WV to the WVSOM Lewisburg campus, starting at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26. What: Leadership WV –[Read More…]
Gee offers vision for WVU moving forward during State of the University Address; students, faculty counter at downtown campus rally
By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – WVU President Gordon Gee outlined his vision on Monday of moving beyond the current turmoil to forge a “modern land grant university.” Right after his State of the University Address, held at the Erickson Alumni Center, a rebuttal of sorts took[Read More…]
Appalachian Power seeks another rate increase to comply with EPA requirements
By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Appalachian Power is seeking another rate increase, which the company says will keep existing power plants in West Virginia in compliance with federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations. Appalachian Power, along with Wheeling Power, filed the request with the West Virginia Public[Read More…]
Capito, Mooney frustrated by GOP paralysis as shutdown looms
By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Whether the goal is to prevent the next government shutdown in the middle of November or providing funding to allies in the middle of conflicts, the lack of a sitting speaker of the U.S House of Representatives is[Read More…]
Former WVU coach Huggins joining HD Media’s Full Court Press radio show
By Taylor Kennedy, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Former West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has a new gig for the upcoming season. Huggins, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022, is joining Full Court Press, a weekly college basketball radio show[Read More…]
EPA begins sealing off what’s been dubbed ‘Fairmont’s Chernobyl’
By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the concrete steps it’s taking in partnership with West Virginia agencies to secure the abandoned and polluted Fairmont Brine Processing Plant. The agency placed temporary barriers at the entrances this week as well as rolled[Read More…]
