By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia teachers and school personnel elected on Thursday to extend their walkout to a seventh day after the Senate refused to vote on a proposed 5 percent pay raise, assigning the bill to its Finance Committee which did not meet. By[Read More…]

By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — A House bill to create 100 single-member House districts is on hold in Senate Judiciary as senators ponder taking the politics out of drawing the new lines. HB 4002, a one-sentence bill, dictates that after the 2020 census, during the reapportionment[Read More…]

By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va.  — A bill regarding the legalization of sports betting in West Virginia comes up for final passage today in the West Virginia Legislature. The House of Delegates is set to have its third and final reading on Senate Bill 415,[Read More…]

By BETH SERGENT Point Pleasant Register Editor’s note: Comments for this article received prior to the State Senate’s decision not to bring the House of Delegates’s pay raise bill to the floor on Thursday.) CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a 5 percent pay raise for[Read More…]

By CHARLIE BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — A move is under way in Charleston to have a section of Princeton Avenue in Bluefield named in honor of the late Bluefield Police Department officer Lt. Aaron L. Crook. The House of Delegates has passed a resolution requesting the honor and[Read More…]

By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Amid the uncertain fate of the statewide, five-days-and-counting teacher and school service personnel strike, the House of Delegates passed a bill Wednesday that would raise salaries of both groups by 5 percent. Gov. Jim Justice unveiled the plan Tuesday evening after negotiating[Read More…]

By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On Wednesday, Democratic members of a House of Delegates committee offered an amendment to abortion legislation that they suggested anti-abortion members should like, because it could reduce the number of abortions in West Virginia sooner than planned. But the Republican-majority committee voted the[Read More…]

By KELSIE LEROSE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Teachers across Berkeley County continue to express the need to fix the Public Employee Insurance Agency following the announcement of Gov. Jim Justice’s proposed salary increase Tuesday evening and an executive order creating a task force to oversee the agency. On Wednesday evening, the[Read More…]

The Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed an executive order Wednesday to create a special task force that will work to find a permanent fix for PEIA. Justice announced Wednesday afternoon that the task force will include educators in West Virginia. “That task force is being[Read More…]