Nitro Plans to Upgrade Park
Nitro city leaders want to make improvements to the city park. A committee is reviewing plans, and then the issue will go back before the full city council, but it’s a $4 million to...
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Online Voter Registration is Working
West Virginia’s new online voter registration system has clicked with voters. Secretary of State Natalie Tennant says her office received over a thousand submissions through the system in its first month, including new voters,...
Delay For Pay Switchover
Cost concerns have delayed the state’s switch to issuing paychecks biweekly instead of semi-monthly. Legislative auditors say the payroll change would give employees an additional paycheck once every 11 years and cost an estimated...
Students May Increase Technology
Education leaders in West Virginia want students in the state to have more access to technology at school. State Superintendent of Schools Michael Martirano says he wants every student from grades three to 12...
WV Man Faces Federal Capital Punishment
39-year-old Marlon “Ice” Dixon from Charleston is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 9 for a plea hearing on charges he killed a police informant. Dixon is charged with murder and other counts...
Blankenship Trial Continues
One of the government’s top witnesses is testifying about a once-confidential safety assessment he gave of Massey Energy under its former CEO, Don Blankenship. In Charleston federal court Tuesday afternoon, former Massey safety official...
Coal Company Makes Cuts
More mining jobs are lost. Cliffs Natural Resources has cut its workforce in half at the Oak Grove Mine in Alabama and the Pinnacle Mine in West Virginia. The mines produce metallurgical coal used...
More Kids Are Insured Now in WV
A new report says 97 percent of children in West Virginia are covered by health insurance. The report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families says West Virginia’s 3 percent...
Bridge Deck Work Means More Closures
The state Dept. of Transportation has been shifting I-64 westbound traffic back to its original lane configuration as work continues on the bridge deck project. The Lee Street westbound on ramp is still closed....
WVU Tech Won’t Abandon Montgomery
West Virginia University President Gordon Gee says the school won’t abandon Montgomery after it moves the WVU Institute of Technology’s programs to Beckley in 2017. Gee told The Register-Herald that the university is looking...
