By Steven Allen Adams, The Intelligencer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While COVID-19 appears to be greatly diminished in the Mountain State, wildlife experts are trying to find answers to a new plague affecting birds all over the east coast. According to the Division of Natural Resources, birds in West Virginia, Virginia,[Read More…]

By Tina Alvey, The Register-Herald WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — From a solemn moment at a creekside monument memorializing local people who perished in the 2016 flood to an energetic hike through a construction site that is steadily transforming an old school building into a boutique hotel, U.S. Sen. Shelley[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — It killed 23 people, pushed rivers to record and near-record heights and caused an estimated $1.1 billion in property loss, but the flash-flooding from torrential thunderstorms in West Virginia’s Greenbrier, Elk and Gauley river basins five years ago this month was not[Read More…]

By Courtney Hessler, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The delay of trials due to COVID-19 closures in the judicial system last year does not violate defendants’ rights to a speedy trial, West Virginia’s high court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia ruling, penned by Chief Justice[Read More…]

From WVUToday: The West Virginia University Board of Governors on Friday approved an estimated $1.1 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, including a nearly 2% increase in tuition across the WVU system. Resident-students will see a 1.87% increase or $84 per semester increase while tuition for non-resident students will rise by 1.99%[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Weirton Daily Times CHARLESTON — While the West Virginia House of Delegates took its time Thursday reviewing the multiple spending proposals and legislation, the state Senate made quick work of passing the bills. Both chambers gaveled in at 11 a.m. Thursday. By 6 p.m. that[Read More…]

By Jess Mancini, The Intelligencer WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Virginia’s U.S. senators on Thursday — both of whom have been on the front lines of infrastructure negotiations — weighed in on the bipartisan deal hammered out in Washington D.C. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and other Democrat and Republican senators[Read More…]

By Ben Conley, The Dominion Post “Or any other serious medical condition for which the physician believes the patient may benefit from the use of medical cannabis.” The West Virginia Medical Cannabis Advisory Board voted 7-4 Thursday to recommend the above language be added to the end of the list of[Read More…]