By Ben Conley, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — When Morgantown Deputy Mayor Danielle Trumble started the Morgantown Cleanup Project Facebook group, she expected a handful of friends to sign on. In less than a year, more than 400 people have joined the group, which organizes volunteer cleanup events like the[Read More…]

By Lacie Pierson, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More people are currently incarcerated in West Virginia’s regional jails than there were in 2020, when the Legislature passed a bail reform law meant to decrease the state’s jail population. That includes 2,681 people who have not been convicted of a crime. All of[Read More…]

By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is promising a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for millions of working Americans. Morrisey, a Republican, issued a statement calling Biden’s move a “historic overreach,” adding that his office has already been[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that West Virginia’s healthcare providers can soon apply for $25.5 billion in new funding from the Provider Relief Fund, including $8.5 billion specifically for rural providers that Senator Manchin fought to include in the American Rescue Plan.[Read More…]

WV Press Release Sharing PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – Mister Bee Potato Chips, the only potato chips made in West Virginia, is up for the coveted honor of ‘Best West Virginia Made Food Product’ in a contest that requires customer votes. Voting starts today and continues through Oct. 3 (people can vote[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Lawmakers in West Virginia are considering additional restrictions on residential addiction recovery homes and sober living houses during the next legislative session after Parkersburg’s moratorium in July. Members of the Joint Committee on Health met Sunday on the[Read More…]

By Lacie Pierson, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — People at a hearing about West Virginia’s legislative redistricting process told lawmakers Thursday they are most concerned about transparency and ensuring the House of Delegates has 100 single-member districts. In the West Virginia Culture Center, 14 people, including county elections officials, county[Read More…]

By Taylor Stuck, The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The motto of the West Virginia Republican Party is to make West Virginia a better place to live, work and raise a family. Advocates say West Virginia can accomplish that now by taking advantage of the federal American Rescue Plan to make[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Some firefighters and police officers wore heavy rescue gear and other participants wore weighted vests as they climbed up steep bleachers and ran to honor the fallen first responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Local[Read More…]