By JAKE JARVIS Charleston Gazette-Mail MONTGOMERY, W.Va. — Dozens of Montgomery residents and others gathered on the West Virginia University Institute of Technology’s campus this morning to hear more details of a potential future for the school’s facilities after WVU Tech moves to Beckley later this year. Officials with KVC Health[Read More…]
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PEIA plans to cut $50 million, director says
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Public Employee Insurance Agency executive director Ted Cheatham told legislators Wednesday that the PEIA Finance Board had no choice but to impose about $50 million in benefits cuts for the 2017-18 plan year, since no additional funding for premiums was expected. In[Read More…]
Justice continues criticism of WVDEP inspectors
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday doubled down on his criticism of his own state Department of Environmental Protection, using a speech to a group of oil and gas operators to increase his attacks on the way he says DEP inspectors dress[Read More…]
DEA to target heroin traffickers in Charleston-Huntington region
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. —The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will spend $500,000 on a program that aims to curb prescription drug and heroin abuse from Charleston to Huntington, agency officials announced today. The pilot project targets drug traffickers that supply opioids to Kanawha, Putnam and Cabell counties.[Read More…]
Kingery, last of prior state school board leaders, resigns
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The last of the three officers on the West Virginia Board of Education before Gov. Jim Justice took office last month resigned Monday. Beverly Kingery’s resignation means that Justice, who has already appointed four new voting members to the state school board[Read More…]
New Milton distribution site to employ 70
By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch MILTON, W.Va. — For small towns to survive, they must be able to attract new businesses. “New business means new jobs,” said Milton Mayor Tom Canterbury. H.T. Hackney Co., one of the largest wholesale distributors in the country, announced on Tuesday that it is opening[Read More…]
Times West Virginian celebrates 20th anniversary of CNHI
Times West Virginian The Times West Virginian’s parent company, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., celebrated a special birthday Tuesday. For the 20th anniversary of the company, which is based out of Montgomery, Alabama, the staff members of the Times West Virginian ate birthday cake and celebrated in other little ways. FRONT[Read More…]
Century Aluminum agrees to retiree health benefits settlement
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — An agreement to cover health care benefits has been a long time coming for Karen Gorrell and retirees of the closed Century Aluminum in Ravenswood. Almost six years to the day, on Feb. 19, 2011, Gorrell organized a meeting[Read More…]
West Virginia DEP won’t monitor light, sound pollution at compressor sites
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register VALLEY GROVE, W.Va. — Excessive light and sound may not pose the health threat that carcinogenic benzene and formaldehyde originating from a natural gas compressor can, but those living in the vicinity of such a station may find it difficult to get a good[Read More…]
DuPont, Chemours agree to $670.7M settlement in C8 cases
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — DuPont Co. said this morning that a $670.7 million “global settlement” had been reached to resolve thousands of lawsuits from Mid-Ohio Valley residents who say they were made sick by exposure to the chemical C8 from the company’s Parkersburg manufacturing plant.[Read More…]
