By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Despite the pandemic, Mercer County has been experiencing considerable growth, and local leaders are optimistic about what is to come. According to Secretary of State Mac Warner, the county has had a net gain of 206 new business registrations from April[Read More…]

By Phil Kabler, HD Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With no apparent consensus of support for any of three versions of income tax cut plans, the West Virginia Senate on Tuesday postponed action on the bill, House Bill 3300, as well as on the Senate and House versions of the 2021-22[Read More…]

By Jessica Wilt, The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Very poignantly and matter of fact, 12-year-old Aryonna Martin assured that helping children of foster care is a true part of her, a passion driven from deep in her soul. “A title doesn’t define what I do,” she said. Though she wears[Read More…]

By Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate approved Tuesday expanding to colleges the bill banning transgender middle- and high-school girls and women from playing on women’s sports teams. The Senate passed the amendment in a voice vote with some nays heard. No senator debated the[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The House Government Organization committee took up the Senate municipal annexation bill Monday and eased some of the bill’s additional restrictions on annexation by minor boundary adjustment. But opponents argued it still makes an already arduous process even more difficult. Along the[Read More…]

By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A compromise was not reached on a plan to end the personal income tax in the state during a summit Monday afternoon called by Gov. Jim Justice. “Let’s just keep working,” Justice said at the end of the summit, which included[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Intelligencer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Despite presenting an updated personal income tax cut plan, Gov. Jim Justice and legislative leaders ended a summit meeting Monday with little hope of a compromise with the House of Delegates or state Senate before the end of the session Saturday.[Read More…]

By Caity Coyne, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County Commission on Monday asked the state’s U.S. senators to request a formal congressional inquiry into reports from representatives with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that say Kanawha County is suffering “the most concerning” HIV outbreak in[Read More…]