MORGANTOWN – Part of the city was hit by a power outage Tuesday afternoon. The Mon Power outage page showed 1,941 of 49,869 customers without power. A […]
Author: David Beard, The Dominion Post
A look at bills that crossed the legislative finish line
MORGANTOWN – The 2025 legislative session wrapped up at midnight Saturday, and a number of bills we followed along the way completed their journeys. Most prominent among […]
DOGE reports 10 HHS grants to state Health Department terminated
MORGANTOWN – In the DOGE effort to curb federal spending by terminating federal grants, West Virginia has taken a relatively tiny hit compared to other states. DOGE […]
Senate Holocaust education bill dies in the House – again
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is plowing through bills as it heads to close of session midnight Saturday, but the Senate bill to require Holocaust education in […]
CarePortal program to help families in need goes live in Mon County
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Department of Human Services Secretary Alex Mayer came to Morgantown on Thursday to join with Chad Clutter, director of Chestnut Mountain Village, social workers […]
WVU Medicine cuts ribbon on Center for Nursing Education
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – WVU Medicine cut the ribbon on Thursday on its brand-new Center for Nursing Education. Members of the first student cohort, faculty and staff, WVUM […]
Senate passes bills limiting cell phones in schools, plowing roads in Mon and Preston
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed bills launching a pilot project to plow secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties, and to limit student cell […]
Senate passes House bill stripping some university board of governors members of voting rights
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A divided state Senate on Wednesday passed the House bill stripping the voting rights from certain members of university governing boards. The vote followed […]
House passes amended Senate municipal elections bill and returns it to Senate
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Monday passed and sent back to the Senate the bill to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and […]
Senate committee advances bill to remove voting power from 4 WVU BOG members
MORGANTOWN – The House bill that would strip the voting rights from the two faculty representatives, the classified staff representative and the student body representative on the […]