WV Press News Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A four-day orientation recently kicked off a nine-month program for the Appalachian Leadership Institute’s 2021-2022 Class. Class member Dr. Amelia Courts, president and CEO of The Education Alliance in Charleston, said the orientation was intense and fast-paced.  The class members have already been placed[Read More…]

By David Kirk, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Tuesday called for few changes before President Biden’s sweeping $1.75T social works package gets his approval. Manchin held a Zoom conference with West Virginia news media to explain his rationale as one of two senatorial holdouts against[Read More…]

By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A cold front that brought rain to West Virginia’s lowlands and a thin coat of wet snow to its eastern mountains on Tuesday was expected to produce subfreezing temperatures across most of the state early Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued freeze[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Tuesday his office is fully prepared to give a robust argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on why it should limit federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Morrisey held a briefing with reporters Tuesday[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Monongalia County) JudgeCindy Scott will host a fifth-grade class in her courtroom at 10 a.m. on Friday, November5. The class from Heritage Christian School in Bridgeport will visit the Monongalia CountyJustice Center that day for what organizers call Courts and[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Monday urged his Congressional colleagues to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and quit holding it hostage for Manchin’s vote on the Build Back Better social infrastructure framework. “I have worked in good faith for three months with[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Angie Rosser smiled while addressing a hundred West Virginia climate advocates huddled together on a rainy afternoon in Charleston Saturday. “I haven’t seen Senator Manchin show up just yet,” Rosser said. “We’re still waiting.” The senator still isn’t with them. Not yet,[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Intelligencer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As the possibility of West Virginia electric customers being on the hook for environmental improvements for three power plants looms on the horizon, a new study shows residential and industrial customers in the state already pay some of the highest prices[Read More…]

by The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Beginning today, students across the state can select robotics as a recognized co-curricular activity by the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission. Students in high schools involved in the WVSSAC are now able to participate in robotics as part of a sanctioned activity. This[Read More…]

By Lacie Pierson, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some regional jail inmates are turning again to a judge for protection against the pandemic, claiming they’ve been kept in the same quarters with cellmates who’ve contracted COVID-19, and they are not regularly tested for the virus. The inmates are seeking a[Read More…]