By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Friday she is considering several Congressionally Directed Spending requests for Mercer County, including projects in Bluefield, Princeton and the Mercer County Airport. Capito made several stops in Bluefield and Princeton Friday as part of her[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer Charleston Gazette-Mail Fayetteville — Like the iconic New River Gorge Bridge towering 850 feet above, the one-lane Tunney Hunsaker Bridge was a legend in its own time. When it opened to traffic in 1889, the 420-foot wrought iron truss span, built by the Virginia Bridge and Iron[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate passed Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s bill cutting personal income tax rates by 10% Friday, though not without a warning from the former Senate Finance Committee chairman and the chairman of the House Finance Committee. Senate Bill 392[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor the Intelligencer 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 met[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — The House Finance Committee submitted its answer to Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s fiscal year 2027 general revenue budget, making substantial changes to the proposal and including possible changes to the Hope Scholarship. The committee recommended House Bill 4027, the budget[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power have asked West Virginia utility regulators to approve a nearly $200 million project to save a failing coal-fired power plant in Marshall County — and increase customer bills to pay for it. The American Electric Power-controlled companies filed an application with[Read More…]

By Greg JordanBluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s attorney general announced Thursday that the state was filing a lawsuit against a tech company for its part in distributing and storing materials showing child sexual abuse. West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey spoke about the lawsuit during a press conference[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON – With eligibility for West Virginia’s educational voucher program set to expand to all families in the state as soon as July, a new bill could establish additional protections for taxpayer dollars and accountability. The House Finance Committee originated a bill[Read More…]

West Virginia Daily News WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVDN) – Governor Patrick Morrisey today joined Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to formalize an amendment to the State-Federal Cooperative Agreement between West Virginia and the U.S. Department of the Interior, expanding West Virginia’s authority to regulate coal mining and reclamation activities on federal[Read More…]

By Eric AyresThe Intelligencer WHEELING – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito was surprised to hear Tuesday that public assistance checks tied to federal disaster relief from the April 2024 floods had not been issued, and with the current partial government shutdown lingering, all disaster relief is expected to remain in limbo[Read More…]