By Steven Allen Adams, Parkersburg News & Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — He has spent more than 23 years helping write many of West Virginia’s laws and could be called the father of the state’s new Intermediate Court of Appeals, but state Sen. Charles Trump IV is ready for the challenge[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charles S. Trump IV of Morgan County, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the West Virginia Senate, has announced that he intends to be a candidate in 2024 for the open seat on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.             “Like many[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, on Thursday delivered remarks on the Senate Floor in support of provisions to expedite completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and implement permitting reforms, which are included[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, for The Intelligencer of Wheeling CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Auditor J.B. McCuskey believes that changes made to the process surrounding tax sales of properties by county sheriff’s departments are providing benefits for property owners, local governments and economic development. “For the last three years … we[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Thursday joineda 23-state coalition in a letter urging U.S. Senate leadership to immediately pass the HALT Fentanyl Act. The legislation would permanently schedule all current and future fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs, giving law enforcement the appropriate[Read More…]

By XENA BUNTON [email protected] CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Unified software in West Virginia courthouses may just be what the state needs to have access to clearing non-violent criminal records. Almost two years ago, Jesse Kelley, the Clean Slate Initiative Campaign strategist, visited the West Virginia Capitol to discuss the need for an open-minded[Read More…]

WV Press Report with updates from Williamson Daily News and The Mingo Messenger CHARLESTON, W.Va. — This weekend United States and West Virginia flags on state-owned facilities are half-staff in honor and remembrance of Sgt. Cory Maynard of the West Virginia State Police.  Maynard was killed Friday in an on-duty shooting[Read More…]

Senator visits construction site, hosts press conference in Charleston on Friday CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Following Thursday’s vote in Washington on the bipartisan debt ceiling agreement to secure the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was back in Charleston on Friday, meeting with gas industry representatives,[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Jim Justice has announced that the West Virginia Water Development Authority (WDA) recently approved 17 infrastructure-related projects funded by the Economic Enhancement Grant Fund. To date, the WDA has approved 100 projects with a total project cost of $1.1 billion and a state match of[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing MARTINSBURG, W.Va – State Treasurer Riley Moore visited Martinsburg on Tuesday, May 30, to present an unclaimed property check totaling nearly $40,000 to benefit Berkeley Medical Center. “It was great partnering with Berkeley Medical Center – one of the top healthcare providers in the region – to reunite[Read More…]