By Steven Allan Adams For The Inter-Mountain Charleston — House Finance Committee leaders said they are still receiving input before unveiling an updated version of its originating bill reforming the Hope Scholarship, while Hope funding received a focus as the state Senate passed its budget Friday. The House Finance Committee[Read More…]

By Steven Allan AdamsFor The Intelligencer Charleston — The matter of at what capacity West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants should be operating and whether those requirements would raise costs for ratepayers became a back-and-forth discussion between a state senator and the chairwoman of the Public Service Commission Monday. The House[Read More…]

By Evan BevinsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg — City officials said a successful referendum on an ordinance authorizing a trash contract with Waste Management would not restore municipal sanitation service. “We do not have a Sanitation Department to reinstate,” Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce said. “There’s only four employees[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Bluefield officials have unveiled their plans to convert a former nursing home into a new $6 million to $8 million medical facility that will include an urgent care component. The plans for the former Mercer Nursing Home facility were made public last[Read More…]

By Riley McCoyFor The Register-Herald Beaver — State Treasurer Larry Pack toured Stepping Stones Academy and touted a bill that would broaden employer-supported childcare. The Feb. 19 visit came after lawmakers considered House Bill 4517 and Senate Bill 646, two measures that aimed to widen West Virginia’s employer childcare tax[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gaztte-Mail Editor’s note: This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a Gazette-Mail series on drinking water quality in West Virginia. The Rev. Caitlin Ware was preaching not in a place of worship, but of woe. Water woe. “Here we are in this[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — A bill to increase the amount of time a candidate must be registered with a political party before filing to run for office pitted two lawmakers serving as major political party chairmen against each other Wednesday. The House of Delegates[Read More…]

By Ashley PerhamFor HDMedia The Kanawha County Commission is trying to resolve a $700,000 deficit as it prepares the county’s annual budget, which goes into effect July 1. Commission President Ben Salango said at Thursday night’s meeting that he anticipates a $500,000 increase in Public Employees Insurance Agency costs and[Read More…]