CHARLESTON — State agencies produced new letters meant to cancel a lease at Fairmont’s Middletown Mall, where rent payments amounting to almost $1 million have been made […]
Author: Brad McElhinny, WVMetroNews.com
House votes to allow committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Loughry
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Legislature began exploring impeachment Tuesday June 26 in the wake of state Supreme Court justice Allen Loughry facing 22 federal counts. The […]
Legislative special session will debate impeachment of Justice Loughry
CHARLESTON — With indicted state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry unwilling to resign, Gov. Jim Justice called West Virginia legislators into special session to debate impeachment proceedings […]
W.Va. Supreme Court facing analysis of spending
CHARLESTON — Over just a few years, West Virginia’s court system built up a budget surplus of $29 million. Almost as quickly, while the Legislature was giving […]
Flood report questions if homes were built under reconstruction program
CHARLESTON — As West Virginia recognizes the two-year anniversary of a deadly flood, investigators issued a scathing report about contracts that were supposed to frame the state’s […]
Do top vacancies handcuff Commerce?
CHARLESTON — Where per capita income and gross domestic product still lag near the bottom nationally, West Virginia is running an economic development agency without its top […]
WV DHHR spent close to $1 million on vacant property
CHARLESTON — The state Auditor’s Office has been investigating why the state canceled an agreement leasing space for DHHR at Middletown Mall on May 31, 2015, and […]
W. Va. Lottery Commission meets to set rules for sports betting at state casinos
CHARLESTON — Hopeful of taking wagers in time for football season, the West Virginia Lottery Commission staged an emergency meeting Thursday to set the rules governing sports betting […]
PEIA Finance Board bumps up tiers for the insurance program
CHARLESTON — The PEIA Finance Board has bumped up the tiers for the insurance program by $2,700 to ensure that raises public employees recently received won’t be […]
Justice Loughry indicted on 22 counts, including fraud, witness tampering
CHARLESTON — On West Virginia Day, federal investigators announced the indictment of the man who wrote the book on political corruption in the Mountain State. Supreme Court Justice […]