By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail The West Virginia Legislature convened for a special session Sunday, introducing nine bills at the request of the governor. Both the House and the Senate will meet again today to consider the bills, hear amendments and possibly suspend the rules and pass out legislation. At[Read More…]

By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the PEIA Task Force about midway through its series of 21 public hearings statewide, member Helen Matheny updated a legislative interim committee on PEIA on the major issues emerging from those proceedings. “There are three main areas we’ve been hearing consistently,”[Read More…]

By KATE MISHKIN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Residents and businesses affected by the 2014 Kanawha Valley water crisis won’t receive settlements until a federal judge issues his final approval order and administrators finish processing the claims. Administrators are still processing the 95,155 claim forms to check for any duplicate[Read More…]

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — The second in a series of audits into state Supreme Court spending went deeper into court vehicle and rental car usage and how records were kept for travel. The first part of the audit, presented during last month’s interim Post Audits subcommittee[Read More…]

By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — High in a mountaintop pasture that hugs the Summers-Monroe border, everything seems right. Birds alive with action and purpose sing and dart through a spring blue sky highlighted with puffs of pure white cumulus clouds. Those birds dive for insects that seem undaunted and[Read More…]

By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON – Portions of Huntington, including the downtown and West End areas, have been certified as “Opportunity Zones” by the U.S. Department of Treasury. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Friday in a news release that the U.S.[Read More…]

By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va.  — A trade association and an environmental group are taking opposing positions on a study about groundwater contamination and natural gas development of the Utica Sale. The West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association said the University of Cincinnati study,[Read More…]

The Inter-Mountain DAVIS, W.Va.  — Art lovers will flock to West Virginia’s Potomac Highlands later this month to enjoy the seventh annual ArtSpring Weekend Friday through Saturday. Begun in 2011, ArtSpring highlights the rich and varied arts communities of Thomas, Davis, Parsons and Canaan in Tucker County. Gallery owners, artists[Read More…]