WV News SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Efforts to restore native brook trout in the Mountain State continue, with fisheries biologists recently surveying a trout stream in Tucker County to see if the project is showing signs of success. “We caught between 30 and 40 native brook trout and now we’re[Read More…]

Release from WVDA CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) is pleased to announce the return of the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP). SMFNP was delayed earlier this year due to a lack of a banking contract. With the contract now in place, vouchers will be delivered[Read More…]

By Charlotte Lane, chair West Virginia Public Service Commission We all know what it’s like to feel intimidated by big trucks on the highway.  Even if you know the rules for driving safely around them, it can still be pretty scary.  That feeling only gets worse when you encounter a[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Nathaniel Orders, president, Orders Construction Company, St. Albans, has been elected president of the Contractors Association of West Virginia. Orders replaces Michael Gianni, president of The James White Construction Company of Weirton, who will serve on the Board of Directors as immediate past president. Serving with President Orders as[Read More…]

By Tina Alvey, The Register-Herald LEWISBURG, W.Va. — An initiative geared toward coaxing remote workers to live in West Virginia is showing great promise, according to an update offered at what was billed as a “Community Conversation on Recreation Infrastructure.” The Friday morning event at the Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center[Read More…]

The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 8,500 volunteers removed 489 tons of litter from West Virginia’s landscape during spring cleanup programs sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. Numbers were recently finalized for April’s Make It Shine and May’s Adopt-A-Highway cleanup efforts, which are administered by[Read More…]

By John Tyson, The Welch News CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced his intention to vote “no” on confirming Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan. The Attorney General discussed Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan, gave an update on the state’s opioid litigation and detailed the office’s efforts to fight[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Demolishing burned out, abandoned and dilapidated buildings found throughout West Virginia is the goal of a bill the Legislature passed last April, and lawmakers are now seeing if stimulus programs such as the American Rescue Plan could be used for that[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sean O’Leary was ready to explain the path toward economic renewal he had mapped out for a West Virginia coal community. He didn’t get the chance. The Wheeling native and senior researcher for the Ohio River Valley Institute, a nonprofit think tank,[Read More…]

By Jessica Wilt, The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Stationed directly next to Deez Donutz and Boardwalk Fryz in the Tractor Supply parking lot on Sunday, Tara Mayson and Berlin McKay III chatted with customers who stopped by to grab a drink from their tent. The duo represented VividVision, a subsidiary[Read More…]