By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer WHEELING, W.Va. — Bethlehem native Brittney Baker danced her way from Wheeling Park High School to Pittsburgh and Duquesne University, and now she is a national champion. Baker captained the Dukettes dance team to its first-ever national title at the virtual National Dance Association Collegiate[Read More…]

Sarah Marino, Times West Virginian MANNINGTON, W.Va. — Saturday marked National Drug Take Back Day, a day where unused prescriptions could be safely disposed of with the help of local police and pharmacies. Johnna Harter, the pharmacist at Mannington Pharmacy, said a lot of times kids can get into medicine[Read More…]

By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican infrastructure package would total $568 billion and be focused only on infrastructure, including at least some funding for West Virginia highway projects like King Coal Highway and Coalfields Expressway, but not enough for completion. A group of Republican Senators,[Read More…]

By Jessi Mancini, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A rise in overdoses in the past year could be an unintended consequence during the pandemic, state attorney general Patrick Morrisey said Thursday. Anecdotal information suggests overdoses from prescription drugs and other drugs has soared since the pandemic began[Read More…]

By Chris Slater, WV News MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Part two of Focus Forward’s “Beyond the Cloud” series Thursday morning focused on adapting and strengthening West Virginia’s ability to become the epicenter of a multi-billion-dollar expansion of the nation’s private weather industry. “The goal of Focus Forward is to bring together[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia environmental regulators have given their blessing for plans to move forward for a surface mine in Raleigh County that has renewed concerns about health and geological impacts from steep slope mining in the area. The state Department of Environmental Protection[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined with four other leading GOP senators Thursday to unveil their trimmed-down counter proposal to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan. The Republican Roadmap, a five-year plan, comes in at about a quarter of the price:[Read More…]

By Taylor Stuck, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — While new research shows most Americans support cannabis legalization, the West Virginia Legislature defeated bills this year to improve the medical cannabis program. The West Virginia Senate passed two bills aimed at improving the program, which passed four years ago but has[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Intelligencer WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and several Republican senators unveiled their own infrastructure plan in hopes of finding compromise with President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan. Capito, R-W.Va., the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Coal companies owned and operated by Gov. Jim Justice’s family are still failing to provide prescription drug coverage to retired miners, even after they reached an agreement to resolve a federal lawsuit to do so, according to the four retired miners and[Read More…]