Twenty-Four Carrot Country
The confirmation of Jeff Sessions as U. S. attorney general means West Virginia’s attorney general has a new role. Patrick Morrisey will become the new chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association. He takes...
Bids will go out to contractors by the end of the year for the Jefferson Road project. The Division of Highways held a public info hearing this week about plans to make improvements to...
Surgical residents at Marshall University have a new tool in a simulation laboratory just unveiled. Marshall said in a news release the lab is intended to provide learning opportunities for residents and enhance patient...
Nearly 400 bills were introduced during the first day of the regular session Wednesday. One of the bills that raised some eyebrows is the one proposed by GOP Senator Craig Blair of Berkeley County....
A high school English teacher at Fairmont High School is the 2017 West Virginia Teacher of the Year. Toni Poling was selected as this year’s winner, and will receive the use of a 2017...
Senator Bernie Sanders will be back in West Virginia early next week. The former Democratic presidential candidate will be in Charleston for a book signing. He’ll be signing his book called “Our Revolution: A...
An ex-coal employee in Logan County has been sentenced to five years’ probation for his role in a kickback scheme. Thirty-five-year-old Chadwick Lusk of Davin was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Charleston for...
Federal officials say the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has failed numerous times to enforce state rules governing the coal-mining industry. News outlets say a three-year investigation by the Department of Interior’s Office...
West Virginia’s highest court has disciplined an attorney elected circuit judge last fall for using campaign fliers falsely claiming his opponent partied with President Barack Obama while coal miners lost jobs. The Supreme Court...
Gov. Jim Justice’s call for small tax increases on both sales and business revenues got immediate pushback from key lawmakers. Other proposals to limit sales tax exemptions and eventually end the state income tax...
