By JIM WORKMAN For The West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The current drug epidemic is a health crisis, a social services crisis and an economic crisis in the state of West Virginia: That was the report from Bill Crouch, cabinet secretary of the Department of Health and Human[Read More…]
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10 things to know: Tuesday, May 22
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, May 22, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. PRESSURE INTENSIFIES ON RUSSIA INVESTIGATION Top FBI, Justice Department officials agree to “review” highly classified[Read More…]
W.Va. interim meeting focused on workforce, economic development
By JIM WORKMAN For The West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Legislative interim meetings for May started Sunday afternoon at the State Capitol with a meeting of the Joint Commission on Economic Development and the Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment for Economic Development. Valerie V. Comer,[Read More…]
Nine bills introduced at West Virginia legislature special session Sunday
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail The West Virginia Legislature convened for a special session Sunday, introducing nine bills at the request of the governor. Both the House and the Senate will meet again today to consider the bills, hear amendments and possibly suspend the rules and pass out legislation. At[Read More…]
Matheny: West Virginia PEIA Task Force hearings identifying three main concerns
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the PEIA Task Force about midway through its series of 21 public hearings statewide, member Helen Matheny updated a legislative interim committee on PEIA on the major issues emerging from those proceedings. “There are three main areas we’ve been hearing consistently,”[Read More…]
West Virginia water crisis settlements not yet ready for distribution
By KATE MISHKIN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Residents and businesses affected by the 2014 Kanawha Valley water crisis won’t receive settlements until a federal judge issues his final approval order and administrators finish processing the claims. Administrators are still processing the 95,155 claim forms to check for any duplicate[Read More…]
Audit delves into state West Virginia Supreme Court vehicle, rental car usage
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The second in a series of audits into state Supreme Court spending went deeper into court vehicle and rental car usage and how records were kept for travel. The first part of the audit, presented during last month’s interim Post Audits subcommittee[Read More…]
There’s gold in these West Virginia mountains
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — High in a mountaintop pasture that hugs the Summers-Monroe border, everything seems right. Birds alive with action and purpose sing and dart through a spring blue sky highlighted with puffs of pure white cumulus clouds. Those birds dive for insects that seem undaunted and[Read More…]
Three areas in Huntington named some of West Virginia’s 55 ‘Opportunity Zones’
By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON – Portions of Huntington, including the downtown and West End areas, have been certified as “Opportunity Zones” by the U.S. Department of Treasury. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Friday in a news release that the U.S.[Read More…]