Register and reserve your rooms today CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration and the room block are open for the West Virginia Press Association’s 2019 Convention, Aug. 2-3, at Lakeview Resort in Morgantown. “The 2019 Convention marks 150 years of the West Virginia Press Association serving the state’s newspaper industry. As you’ll notice[Read More…]

By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislators Monday debated the costs and benefits of a perennial issue at the Capitol: to reduce or eliminate requirements that state, county and municipal governments publish legal notices in local newspapers. Discussions Monday in the interim Joint Standing Committee on Finance balanced issues[Read More…]

Plant, with 160 jobs and 400 plus indirect jobs, faced possible closure By Jake Jarvis, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON — A bill to give the Pleasants Power Station a more than $12 million tax break is on its way to the governor’s desk. The measure, House Bill 207, was passed[Read More…]

By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates finally adjourned Tuesday its special legislative session on education, which Republican Gov. Jim Justice started and eventually expanded to include non-education-related bills. Justice began the session, which gave lawmakers more time to pass laws than they[Read More…]

By MATT COMBS, CNHI News West Virginia GLEN JEAN, W.Va. — On the grounds of the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Fayette County, brightly colored national flags wave as a multitude of languages are spoken by passing teenagers. With Scouts from more than 150 countries represented at the 2019 World Scout[Read More…]

Charleston Gazette-Mail Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Gazette-Mail reporter Ken Ward Jr. and former Charleston Gazette reporter Paul J. Nyden are among three people named Monday as winners of the annual Tom and Pat Gish Award, given for “courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism.” Ward and Nyden are sharing the[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, July 24 , 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. MUELLER TO TAKE CENTER STAGE AT RUSSIA PROBE HEARINGS The back-to-back Capitol[Read More…]

By Jordyn Johnson for The Charleston Gazette-Mail BECKLEY, W.Va. — About 43,000 Boy Scouts from more than 150 countries arrived throughout the day on Monday at the 2019 World Scout Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Southern West Virginia. The event, held every four years, has not been in[Read More…]

GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s two U.S. senators let their adventuresome sides take over at the World Scout Jamboree. Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito took rides on adjoining zip lines Monday in southern West Virginia. About 45,000 Scouts and their leaders from around the world[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams Special to The Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Lawmakers attending Monday’s July legislative interim meetings heard from representatives of the state Department of Revenue about West Virginia’s record-breaking general revenue growth for the fiscal year ending in June. Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy told the Joint Standing Committee[Read More…]