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Efforts to eliminate the state income tax in West Virginia are moving along. A committee met and discussed the possibility, which would replace the income tax with an eight-percent sales tax. There has been...

More tax revenue has been collected than expected for the first time in the current fiscal year in West Virginia. Finance leaders in the state yesterday said the state took in nearly 252-million dollars...

A drug roundup in Boone County has netted at least 15 arrests. State police say much of the drug crackdown effort targets heroin and meth users, and the investigation has been going on for...

Major improvements could be coming to Yeager Airport. The gazette-Mail reports it’s a proposed $290 million emergency infrastructure project for rebuilding and extending the runway after the March 2015 landslide. Airport leaders have presented...

More now on an accident that killed two young children on Interstate 64 in Milton. Cabell County deputies say warrants have been obtained for the mother, 26-year old Siera Burgess. She’s facing two counts...

State revenue figures show West Virginia’s tax collections for February exceeded estimates by $10 million but still leave the government’s estimated shortfall for the fiscal year at $123 million. Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy notes...

A bill to exempt the mass release of West Virginia hunters’ contact information to the public is making its way through the state Legislature. The Senate Natural Resources Committee forwarded the bill Monday to...

Authorities are looking into a fire at an abandoned Kanawha County church. Police say the fire was on Flag Street near Eskdale/Cabin Creek Sunday night. Someone does live at the former church turned residence,...

Marshall University Career Services holds its annual Educator Expo this Wednesday. Thirty-six school systems from nine states will be represented and they’re looking for teachers in various disciplines. The event is geared towards opportunities...

Governor Justice says they have found nearly 120-million-dollars to help close this year’s state budget shortfall. The governor says the continued analysis of West Virginia’s finances by the Justice administration identified that there is...