By Charles Young, WV News CHARLESTON (WV News) — West Virginia closed the books on fiscal year 2025 with a total year-end surplus of $338.5 million, according to information released by Gov. Patrick Morrisey. The year-end surplus includes a $254.8 million General Revenue Fund revenue collection surplus, $49.2 million in[Read More…]

By Charles Young, WV News WASHINGTON (WV News) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will formally end a solar expansion program that promised to bring more than $100 million to West Virginia. Following media reports that the agency was considering cutting the Solar for All program, EPA[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — In-person and virtual public charter schools will continue to follow West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to required school-age immunizations until the matter is settled. During its regular virtual meeting Thursday morning, the Professional[Read More…]

By Destiney Dingess, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A system of sensors now on the East Huntington Bridge will ensure real-time monitoring to guide maintenance and extend bridge life, state and federal officials announced Thursday. The equipment, called Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), was made possible when the West Virginia Department[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT — CVS Caremark owes the State of West Virginia $1.4 million in civil penalties after the state’s insurance commissioner found it violated state code. The $1.4 million fine is based on 2,871 violations, with each fine assessed at $500. The commissioner found that[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, CNHI West Virginia BLUEFIELD — Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday that after considering several highly-qualified applicants, he had appointed a Fayette County native and circuit judge to the Mountain State’s supreme court. Speaking on social media from his office in Charleston, Morrisey said that he had appointed[Read More…]

By Samantha Smith, The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Four WVU Football players are suing the NCAA after being denied eligibility for the upcoming season. The complaint, filed on Aug. 1 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, alleges the NCAA wrongly denied Jimmori Robinson,[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — “Government by the few.” That’s Merriam-Webster’s first and most succinct definition of oligarchy, the target of a nationwide tour that will bring Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to West Virginia this weekend. Sanders will have more than four words to spare on that[Read More…]

By Stephen Smoot, Moorefield Examiner MOOREFIELD, W.Va. — Brilliantly lovely to look at, but dangerously deadly to American forests, the spotted lantern fly’s establishment in West Virginia has led to a determined response by the State Department of Agriculture. If their policy had to bear the name of a rock[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN – Local residents filled the bleachers at the University High School gym Tuesday evening to learn about, and stand against, the proposed NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic Resiliency Link project. Speaker Bath Ann Bossio summarized the sentiments of many who attended: “It’s a land[Read More…]