Twenty-Four Carrot Country
Next school year, the government plans to start assigning schools grades on its new A-F rating system. State education officials will collect data on schools, and criteria will include student performance on things like...
Senate President Bill Cole says legislative attorneys are reviewing a part of state code that binds West Virginia University Tech’s headquarters to Montgomery. Cole tells The Gazette-Mail that the Legislature would be willing to...
An audit says West Virginia underfunded 36 county school systems by $52 million over seven years, while overfunding 19 counties by $22 million. In the audit released Sunday, the legislative auditor’s office says the...
The South Charleston Fire Department has received a federal grant of nearly $254,000. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and said the...
The West Virginia Board of Education has approved a new plan to consolidate four Fayette County high schools into a new high school. The board voted on the plan on Wednesday. Fayette schools Superintendent...
A Logan County Spanish teacher has been named West Virginia Teacher of the Year. The Department of Education says Andrea Santos received the award on Wednesday night during a ceremony in Charleston. County teachers...
Holiday travelers kept toll workers on the West Virginia Turnpike busy over the Labor Day weekend. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that toll workers handled about 32,000 more transactions that they did during the same...
Ohio and Pennsylvania regulators say Patriot Coal’s reorganization plan doesn’t adequately address the company’s obligations to clean up mine pollution. Both states opposed the plan’s approval in separate motions filed this week in U.S....
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will commemorate the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks today. Tomblin plans to join first responders this morning at the West Virginia Fallen Firefighter Memorial on the state Capitol...
The Charleston Fire Department welcomed one of its largest classes of recruits Thursday. Fourteen firefighters attended a ceremony at City Hall after completing the training academy. eeven with the new recruits, a lot of...
