By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A month before they will sit down to hash out details of the proposed 2019-20 benefits plan, members of West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board got good news on the financial health of the plan. Preliminary results Thursday show PEIA[Read More…]

By CARYN GRESHAM For the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Since its inception, West Virginia has always had a connection with farming and agriculture. The Great Seal of the State of West Virginia, adopted in September 1863, features a farmer with an ax and plow standing before a cornstalk, as[Read More…]

By TRAVIS CRUM Williamson Daily News HAMLIN, W.Va. —  Glenn Stickler’s eyes welled up with tears as he described the 200 acres of land in Lincoln County that has been part of his family since 1922. His grandfather spent his life farming the land, as did his father “from daylight[Read More…]

By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The new finance subcommittee for Gov. Jim Justice’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education plans to recommend increasing funding for the state’s smaller colleges by $10 million annually. Subcommittee members’ comments Thursday shed doubt on whether they’ll have consensus behind a[Read More…]

Staff reports NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — Recently appointed state Supreme Court Justice Paul T. Farrell has appointed four justices to hear a case challenging the temporary appointments of outgoing Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., and former House Speaker Tim Armstead to the court and Jenkins’ election bid. In an administrative[Read More…]

By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s opioid crisis is far from over and the resources — both human and monetary — for fighting it in the Eastern Panhandle are in short supply, according to experts. Those are the two conclusions from a panel of 25 Berkeley[Read More…]

By EMILY RICE Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va.  — Absentee voting for the Nov. 6 General Election starts on Friday, Sept. 21 in W.Va. and Va. To vote absentee in Va., registered voters must meet one of the 20 eligibility requirements listed on the Va. absentee ballot application. There are[Read More…]

By TRAVIS CRUM The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va.  — The West Virginia Division of Highways announced Thursday that resurfacing work on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 between Milton and Hurricane is complete. That work was part of a project to rehabilitate a 14-mile stretch of I-64 East between Milton and[Read More…]

WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Like other cells in the body, heart cells contain mitochondria, which act like tiny powerhouses. Just as a car can’t run well if its engine is faulty, cells can’t do their jobs if their mitochondria malfunction. Diabetes can harm the heart, sabotaging its ability to[Read More…]