By Maggie Susa, The Herald-Dispatch HURRICANE, W.Va. — University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and GoHealth Urgent Care, which formed a joint venture to acquire and rebrand all MedExpress locations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, came together Thursday morning to celebrate a newly rebranded location in Putnam County. The process[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT — President Donald Trump recommended Congress cut funding to NASA’s Katherine Johnson Independent Verification & Validation Facility in Fairmont by two thirds. NASA’s 2026 discretionary budget request takes the IV&V facility’s budget from $43 million to $13 million. The majority of the cuts[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams for The Intelligencer CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s U.S. senators praised the release Friday of additional federal education dollars that had been put on hold for nearly a month by the administration of President Donald Trump. In press releases Friday afternoon, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim[Read More…]

By Stephanie Ujhelyi, The Weirton Daily Times CHESTER — The year 2025 marks special significance for the city’s annual Teapot Day, as it is the first year with its new coordinator and a decade in existence. Susan Hineman, who serves on the Chester City Parks Commission, has long overseen the[Read More…]

By Steve Keenan, The Register-Herald BECKLEY — A Raleigh County Circuit Court judge Thursday granted a preliminary injunction in a religious exemption vaccination case involving both the West Virginia and Raleigh County boards of education. Raleigh County Circuit Judge Michael E. Froble issued the preliminary injunction in favor of three[Read More…]

By Charles Young, WV News WASHINGTON (WV News) — It took more than a month after deadly flooding events impacted two West Virginia counties for the White House to approve the state’s applications for Major Disaster and Emergency declarations through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Individual Assistance program. Sen. Shelley[Read More…]

By Derek Redd, The Intelligencer WHEELING — Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Survivor and Disaster Relief and Recovery centers could be up and running in Ohio County as soon as next week, state and local officials said Thursday. Gov. Patrick Morrisey — in his fifth visit to Ohio County since[Read More…]

By Ben Conley, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown is freezing 59% of its financial stabilization fund — representing $2 million — as a last-resort contingency measure in light of a $3,237,685 budget shortfall. The issue comes down to carryover. When the city passed its $45.3-million general[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail THURMOND, W.Va. — A Finding of No Signicant Impact by National Park Service officials will allow New River Gorge National Park and Preserve to demolish at least 13 historic buildings within the park, including 11 within the Thurmond Historic District, listed in the National Register[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams for The Intelligencer CHARLESTON – The question of whether to require public and private school students to be vaccinated is now before a Raleigh County court after a Kanawha County judge dismissed the case of two parents seeking to require West Virginia health officials to follow[Read More…]