By Matthew YoungFor the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON — Diabetes, obesity and “seven pillars” of health care to combat them were the topic of a panel discussion Friday, which focused heavily on the $199.5 million in grants West Virginia is set to receive through the federal Rural Healthcare Transformation Fund. Facilitated as[Read More…]
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Health officials say virulent strain driving harsh flu season
By Riley McCoyThe Register-Herald BECKLEY — A virulent strain of influenza has pushed the 2025-26 flu season to its highest activity level in 25 years, bringing longer fevers and harsher symptoms, area health officials said Thursday. “Nationally, we are seeing the highest incidence of flu we have seen in the[Read More…]
U.S. Sen. Capito provides comments on health care, Venezuela and Minnesota ICE shooting
By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito believes that federal Rural Health Transformation funding will benefit West Virginia, and that claims that rural hospitals could see a $1 billion cut in Medicaid funding are “overstated.” Capito provided a briefing to reporters Thursday[Read More…]
Work to begin soon on Coalfields Expressway connector route in Welch
By Charles OwensBluefield Daily Telegraph WELCH — Excavation work should be getting underway soon on a new connector route in Welch that will allow motorists to enter the Coalfields Expressway corridor in the fall of 2027. The new connector route is planned adjacent to Welch Community Hospital. It will be[Read More…]
EPA delays coal plant wastewater pollution compliance deadlines that loom large in W.Va.
By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail It was just over 18 months ago that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule it said would reduce pollutants discharged through wastewater from coal-fired power plants by more than 660 million pounds per year. The rule stood to have a long-lasting environmental impact in[Read More…]
ICE targets Mexican restaurants in North Central West Virginia
By Esteban FernandezTimes West Virginian NUTTER FORT — A sign warned lunch patrons to Taqueria Lou Lou in Nutter Fort that opening would be delayed to 1 p.m. A few hours earlier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took two people away from their community. “These men were not ‘bad guys,’”[Read More…]
Boley announces retirement from W.Va. Senate
By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON – Nearly 41 years after she was first appointed, Senate President Pro Tempore Donna Boley is stepping aside to focus on her health and to spend more time with her family. In a letter submitted to Senate President Randy Smith Thursday,[Read More…]
Minority Leader Woelfel to retire from the West Virginia Senate after 2026
Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — First joining the West Virginia Senate in 2015 as the Democratic majority became the Democratic minority for the first time in more than 80 years, state Senate Minority Leader Mike Woelfel will retire as one of two remaining Democratic members. Woelfel,[Read More…]
Coal mining heritage park being developed in Welch
By Charles OwensBluefield Daily Telegraph WELCH — Work is underway on a new attraction in McDowell County that will pay tribute to the region’s rich coal mining history. In keeping with the city of Welch’s “CoalTown USA” theme, the coal miner heritage park project will include replicas of a coal[Read More…]
West Virginia University’s ‘Musket,’ the canine buddy to the Mountaineer, to get his own bobblehead
By Jim BissettThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel MORGANTOWN — Every dog has his day. And, if he’s really lucky, his own bobblehead. “That’s the plan,” Phil Sklar said with a chuckle on Tuesday – which, in his world, is the day before the big day. You know: National Bobblehead Day.[Read More…]
