By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new state plan is in place to help handle a “crisis” situation with hospitals and long-term care facilities that could lead to rationing health care. “We have to move and move right now,” Gov. Jim Justice said Monday during his[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A slimmed-down version of a bill meant to standardize election rules across all 50 states, prevent partisan gerrymandering and disclose dark money could come to a vote in the U.S. Senate this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, a bill based[Read More…]

By Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Education is providing $200,000 in start-up money to the still unstaffed state charter school approval board. Much of the money may go toward hiring an executive director. Department spokeswoman Christy Day wrote in an email that the[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing – The West Virginia Health Care Association’s CEO, Marty Wright,issued the following statement: On behalf of our state’s long-term care facilities, we thank Governor Justice forrecognizing the current plight of our health care providers and acting quickly toimplement the “Save Our Care” initiative. The current surge[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Jim Kaufman, President and CEO of the West Virginia Hospital Association, released the following statement regarding the Governor’s new “Saving Our Care” program. “On behalf of the hospitals in West Virginia and the 49,000 employees who have been working tirelessly throughout the pandemic, we applaud the actions taken today by[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.VA. —The West Virginia Senate Redistricting Committee will have an organizational meeting at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23, in the Senate Judiciary Committee Room (208W). There will be no consideration of draft maps at this initial meeting. Subsequent meeting dates and procedures for the remainder of the redistricting process[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing BECKLEY, W.Va. – Country Roads Angel Network (CRAN), West Virginia’s only accredited angel investment network, signed an agreement to collaborate with Intermed Labs, LLC, a Morgantown-based innovation lab and startup studio affiliated with Mon Health System. “As we continue working with entrepreneurs seeking capital investment and[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — More resorts and other lodgers offering accommodations to ATV tourists are appearing in Mercer County, but several are not listed as businesses and as a result, they are not paying a county hotel/motel tax that helps fund tourism development. More entrepreneurs[Read More…]

By McKENNA HORSLEY, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Local chefs and surgeons will put their carving skills to the test for the inaugural Huntington Children’s Museum Pumpkin Carving Contest. This is the latest step that a group of local parents and community members have taken in order to build a[Read More…]

By Jeniffer Graham, The Dominion Post KINGWOOD, W.Va. — A search for naloxone led a Kingwood  police officer to the Monongalia County Quick Response Team. “I was responding to overdose calls, and I would get to the scene before the ambulance. I didn’t have the equipment I needed to help the[Read More…]