By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON – Standing behind a sign that read “Reducing Overdose Deaths,” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday that West Virginia has recorded the nation’s biggest reduction in overdose deaths, but there is still work to do. Morrisey came to Mercer County and spoke at the[Read More…]

By Ben Conley, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN — The old proverb teaches that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. On Wednesday, the West Virginia Division of Highways, Monongalia County Commission and developer WestRidge took the critical first step down what promises to be a long[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — Members of the West Virginia Board of Education voted to place Roane County Schools in a state of emergency, citing a significant budget deficit for the new fiscal year. In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the state Board of Education[Read More…]

By Katelyn Aluise, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — About 15,000 students applied for the Hope Scholarship and will receive full funding for the 2025-26 school year. Of that total, more than 1,700 are from Kanawha County. According to a news release from West Virginia Treasurer Larry Pack’s oce, this is[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — While President Donald Trump issued a federal disaster declaration for Texas within days after substantial flash flooding, Gov. Patrick Morrisey is still working on receiving a disaster declaration more than three weeks after flash flooding in Ohio and Marion[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — Officials from the Bluefield Rescue Squad and Princeton Rescue Squad went before the Mercer County Commission Tuesday to inquire about obtaining opioid settlement funds to purchase one new ambulance each. Mark Brooks, CEO of the Princeton Rescue Squad, shared information from Medicare[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Williamson Daily News CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Unions and occupational safety providers say the federal agency with statutory responsibility to protect workers’ health and safety through research remains decimated by the Trump administration, a disruption of programs and services that will result in more disabling injuries, illnesses and[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Low-cost carrier Breeze Airways will resume nonstop service to Tampa, Florida, in October and add up to four additional new nonstop destinations to West Virginia International Yeager Airport’s flight schedule during the next two years, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and the airline announced[Read More…]

By Kate Shunney, The Morgan Messenger Park Naturalist Valerie Chaney championed a pollinator plot a few years back at Cacapon State Park, in partnership with an effort to attract and study Monarch butterflies, which face tough competition for their needed habitat. Today, that “plot” has grown into a two-acre wildflower[Read More…]

WV News CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia’s expanded Slow Down, Move Over law, aimed at protecting all those at the roadside, will take effect Friday, just in time for the height of the summer travel season. Since 2003, West Virginia has had a law requiring drivers to “slow[Read More…]