WVPA room discount at Embassy Suites is a limited time offer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration is now open for the West Virginia Press Association’s 2018 WVPA Convention, Aug. 9-11, in Charleston. “The WVPA is partnering with WVU’s Academic Media Day program. It’s an excellent opportunity for all media,’ said Don Smith,[Read More…]
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2018 Friends of Coal Auto Fair to open today in Beaver
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald A whirlwind weekend of fancy cars, concerts, crafts and carnival rides opens today with the 2018 Friends of Coal Auto Fair at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport in Beaver. Fairgoers may stroll along the grounds to admire row after row of hotrods, customs, classics, muscle cars,[Read More…]
Out-of-state money floods U.S. Senate primary in W.Va. as special interests seek to buy election
By Lon Anderson Moorefield Examiner MOOREFIELD, W.Va. — Anyone who thinks elections in the U.S. can’t be bought needs to take a closer look at campaign contributions and expenditures in last May’s West Virginia Senate primary elections. If they weren’t bought, it was not for a lack trying. Independent[Read More…]
10 things to know: Friday, July 20
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Thursday, Jan. 20, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? Unbowed by swirling criticism of his summit encounter with Vladimir[Read More…]
Senate President, teachers’ unions square off at PEIA Taskforce meeting
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A tweet Tuesday by the president of the West Virginia Senate was a topic for two teachers’ union representatives during a PEIA Taskforce subcommittee meeting Wednesday morning. The Public Outreach Subcommittee met Wednesday at the state Capitol Building.[Read More…]
West Virginia second quarter severance totals a mixed bag
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Coal severance numbers from the second quarter of this year were released on Wednesday, and while the state saw numbers jump when compared to the first quarter, numbers are down slightly, approximately 3.33 percent statewide when compared to last year’s second quarter.[Read More…]
Book your rooms at Embassy Suites today for WVPA Convention 2018
WVPA room discount at Embassy Suites is a limited time offer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration is now open for the West Virginia Press Association’s 2018 WVPA Convention, Aug. 9-11, in Charleston. “The WVPA is partnering with WVU’s Academic Media Day program. It’s an excellent opportunity for all media,’ said Don Smith,[Read More…]
Marshall University professor’s Clio app featured as a top humanities project in US
By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A mobile app developed and run by a Marshall University professor and his students is being touted as the gold standard for what collegiate humanities projects should be by the National Humanities Alliance. The Clio app picks up a user’s location anywhere[Read More…]
West Virginia health care providers enlisted to spot human trafficking
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Human trafficking is not a matter tucked out of sight in developing nations. It’s driven past on the streets of Huntington each day and found even in the most far-flung hollows of outlying West Virginia. Second only to drug trafficking as the[Read More…]