MORGANTOWN — Morgantown will move forward with efforts to annex property around Suncrest Elementary School, and the city’s airport hangar project will likely need an additional $600,000 to hit an […]
Government
Campus Carry Bill moves to 3rd reading with 16 amendments pending; medical cannabis integration bill sees 3 amendments
CHARLESTON — Many at the Capitol awaited House action on HB 2519, the so-called Campus Carry Bill, when the House resumed action Tuesday afternoon and took up bills for second […]
Senate bill requires overdose reporting within 72 hours via app
CHARLESTON — The state Senate gave unanimous approval to a bill Tuesday that would speed up the time in which overdoses in West Virginia are to be reported to the […]
Justice hopes Senate will move forward with pay raise bill for educators, state employees
CHARLESTON — Early last October, state lawmakers stood with Gov. Jim Justice as he promised a pay raise for teachers and other state employees. Justice pledged “that we’re going, in […]
Bill lowering severance tax for steam coal is moving in House
CHARLESTON — A bill lowering severance taxes on thermal or steam coal in West Virginia from five percent to three percent will next be taken up on the floor of […]
Manchin, Morrisey offer insight into education reform failure
CHARLESTON — Two high-profile public figures in West Virginia are weighing in on the brief statewide public teachers strike and the circumstances that led up to the two-day work stoppage. […]
Commission fields funding request for 2019 Mon County Baseball Classic
MORGANTOWN — MVB Bank Executive Vice President Don Robinson asked the Monongalia County Commission to provide $6,000 for the second Mon County Baseball Classic. The event, slated for April 26-27, […]
Council approves bids for Sunnyside, former Woodburn school building
MORGANTOWN — A pair of bids — one continuing improvements to the Sunnyside tax increment finance district and the other addressing accessibility in the former Woodburn School — were approved […]
Preston adds new fee on recording deeds
KINGWOOD — Preston County government stands to collect an estimated $60,000-plus annually from a new fee approved Tuesday. Commissioners Dave Price and Don Smith voted 2-0 Tuesday to implement the […]
Mayors call on Senate to take up bill expanding nondiscrimination law
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Mayor Bill Kawecki is among a group of 12 mayors calling on West Virginia’s Senate leadership to take up Senate Bill 391, which would add sexual orientation […]
