Twenty-Four Carrot Country
A federal bankruptcy judge says he’ll make a final decision soon in the Freedom Industries bankruptcy case. The proposed settlement involves Freedom Industries and attorneys for residents, West Virginia American Water, the Department of...
The West Virginia Supreme Court is considering whether the state Board of Education can be sued by a former superintendent over her firing. The board has asked the court to overturn a circuit judge’s...
West Virginia University’s Beckley campus is the new home of former U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall’s papers. Rahall donated 2,000 boxes of testimony, speeches, news releases and other documents to WVU. The documents will be...
West Virginia University researchers are forecasting continued high unemployment in West Virginia. The school recently released its annual West Virginia Economic Outlook report. Fueled by a decline in the coal industry, the state’s jobless...
Jury selection in the criminal case against former Massey EnergyCEO Don Blankenship resumes today. Sixteen jurors were dismissed Friday. The 65-year-old Blankenship is charged with conspiring to break safety laws and lying to financial...
West Virginia’s new prevailing wage rates were unveiled Wednesday — rates that the research director of WorkForce West Virginia said are an accurate measure of the true wages being paid to construction workers on...
Former West Virginia Delegate Mark Hunt is joining the 2016 race for attorney general. Hunt announced his candidacy this week on his website. Hunt is a Kanawha County Democrat who served in the House...
Jury selection finished just before 5 p.m. Thursday in the Don Blankenship trial, and will resume this morning. The former Massey Energy CEO is facing criminal charges related to the Upper Big Branch Mine...
Online voter registration is up and running. You can register to vote through the Secretary of State’s website as long as you have a West Virginia driver’s license or DMV identification card. The application...
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is staying out of a funding issue involving school consolidation in Fayette County. State Board of Education President Mike Green wrote to Tomblin this week, asking that the School Building...
