By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — All public schools in the Northern Panhandle are closed today due to a statewide work stoppage by teachers and school service personnel that was called abruptly on Monday evening. Unions representing those workers made the move in response to[Read More…]
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4th Circuit hearing on Atlantic Coast Pipeline not expected until May
By CHARLES YOUNG NCWV Media CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A hearing that could impact the future of Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline project has been pushed back at least two months, according to a spokesman. Karl Neddenien, ACP spokesman, said the postponement involves oral arguments in the company’s appeal of a U.S.[Read More…]
WVU professor helps military families ‘navigate life outside the gate’
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With 1.3 million active duty military personnel nationwide, coordinating and finding accessible healthcare and social services for their 1.7 million family members is a major challenge. Christopher Plein, the Eberly Family Professor for Outstanding Service at West Virginia University, is working to address these challenges[Read More…]
Incentive electric rates for new WV businesses are announced
By FRED PACE HD Media WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Appalachian Power, along with Wheeling Power, are offering new or expanding businesses an extra incentive to operate in West Virginia — a discount on their electric service. “We’re looking at every possible tool we can provide to make our state more competitive[Read More…]
Union leaders call for West Virginia public school workers strike beginning today
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A little less than a year since the start of West Virginia’s first statewide public school workers strike, leaders of the state’s three major school employee unions called Monday evening for another strike to begin, starting Tuesday, over the education overhaul bill.[Read More…]
Intermediate appeals court bill passes W.Va. Senate
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nearly decade-long effort to create an intermediate appeals court underneath the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals took one step closer to creation Monday. The state Senate passed Senate Bill 266, the West Virginia Appellate Reorganization Act,[Read More…]
Around the Rotunda: Legislative, committee schedule for Tuesday, Feb. 19
Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 42nd Day of the Legislative Session Rotunda and social activities: Nurses Unity Day, Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas; Re‐Entry and Recovery Day, Attorney General Rotunda. SENATE: Senate to convene at 11 a.m. On The Agenda Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, February 19
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about[Read More…]
Mayors sign letter asking WV Senate to take up nondiscrimination bill
NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The mayors of 12 municipalities throughout West Virginia have sent a letter urging state lawmakers to take up a bill to apply nondiscrimination policy for sexual orientation and gender identity. The mayors who signed the letter and their respective municipalities are: Amy Goodwin, of Charleston[Read More…]
