By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Procter & Gamble’s new Tabler Station factory is already developing a Berkeley County character to it, based on an ample number of workers who hail from the area assembling the company’s Bounce dryer sheet line. A handful of employees currently working on[Read More…]

The Inter-Mountain VALLEY HEAD, W.Va.  — As construction gets underway in West Virginia, one Atlantic Coast Pipeline community came together to welcome teams working in Randolph County. With a census population of just over 260 people, the small town of Valley Head extended hospitality to the 50-person work team with[Read More…]

The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers 1. NATO SUMMIT OFF TO ROCKY START A testy exchange between Trump and NATO’s secretary general,[Read More…]

By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia newspaper chain and The Washington Post asked a federal judge Monday to authorize three counties to release records that would disclose drug companies’ shipments of prescription opioids. HD Media, parent company of newspapers including the Charleston Gazette-Mail and The[Read More…]

By WENDY HOLDREN The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Health care, for many Americans, is personal. Nearly every comment made Monday morning at a Beckley roundtable on pre-existing conditions began with a personal anecdote. One man discussed how his premiums have risen since he’s grown older. Another man talked about the costs of coverage for his[Read More…]

By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After state lawmakers demanded a funding formula proposal for their colleges, a couple of school presidents worried about competing for students with schools that have loose enrollment requirements. But these weren’t four-year college presidents talking about West Virginia’s community colleges. It was[Read More…]

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Acting Commerce Secretary Clayton Burch recommended that West Virginia National Guard Adjutant General James Hoyer take over the board that oversees the state’s recently created flood resiliency office. That recommendation came in the State Resiliency Office board’s quarterly report to the Legislature[Read More…]

WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At WVU Medicine’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, basic neuroscience research is helping to develop new technologies that will aid scientists in understanding the intricacies of the brain and advance new treatments for some of the most debilitating neurological illnesses. In an effort to continue to improve[Read More…]

By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — Human trafficking is on the rise in West Virginia and it appears to have a direct correlation to the opioid epidemic, according to an official with the “Just Ask Prevention Project.” Bill Woolf, executive director of the project and a retired police[Read More…]