By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Intelligencer Charleston — With 18 days left in the 2026 legislative session and budget bills from the West Virginia Senate and House of Delegates on the move, Gov. Patrick Morrisey urged lawmakers to give more consideration to his budget proposal and leave the Hope Scholarship[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez For Times West Virginian Fairmont — Coal miners are returning to work after American Consolidated Natural Resources had to temporarily close them to sort out soil permit issues with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. “Evidently the DEP, I’m just guessing they must have shut them[Read More…]

By Steven Allan Adams For The Inter-Mountain Charleston — House Finance Committee leaders said they are still receiving input before unveiling an updated version of its originating bill reforming the Hope Scholarship, while Hope funding received a focus as the state Senate passed its budget Friday. The House Finance Committee[Read More…]

By Steven Allan AdamsFor The Intelligencer Charleston — The matter of at what capacity West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants should be operating and whether those requirements would raise costs for ratepayers became a back-and-forth discussion between a state senator and the chairwoman of the Public Service Commission Monday. The House[Read More…]

By Evan BevinsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg — City officials said a successful referendum on an ordinance authorizing a trash contract with Waste Management would not restore municipal sanitation service. “We do not have a Sanitation Department to reinstate,” Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce said. “There’s only four employees[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Bluefield officials have unveiled their plans to convert a former nursing home into a new $6 million to $8 million medical facility that will include an urgent care component. The plans for the former Mercer Nursing Home facility were made public last[Read More…]

By Riley McCoyFor The Register-Herald Beaver — State Treasurer Larry Pack toured Stepping Stones Academy and touted a bill that would broaden employer-supported childcare. The Feb. 19 visit came after lawmakers considered House Bill 4517 and Senate Bill 646, two measures that aimed to widen West Virginia’s employer childcare tax[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gaztte-Mail Editor’s note: This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a Gazette-Mail series on drinking water quality in West Virginia. The Rev. Caitlin Ware was preaching not in a place of worship, but of woe. Water woe. “Here we are in this[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — A bill to increase the amount of time a candidate must be registered with a political party before filing to run for office pitted two lawmakers serving as major political party chairmen against each other Wednesday. The House of Delegates[Read More…]

By Ashley PerhamFor HDMedia The Kanawha County Commission is trying to resolve a $700,000 deficit as it prepares the county’s annual budget, which goes into effect July 1. Commission President Ben Salango said at Thursday night’s meeting that he anticipates a $500,000 increase in Public Employees Insurance Agency costs and[Read More…]