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FirstEnergy officials explain reasons for Mon Power rate hike request to PSC

MORGANTOWN – A Public Service Commission ruling on Mon Power's and Potomac Edison's latest rate hike request is still a ways off – March 26, 2024, is the expected date – but the case is slowly unfolding. On Monday, company officials explained some of the reasoning behind the request ...

Adrian updates MPO on Harmony Grove efforts

MORGANTOWN — “It’s been a long road,” Glenn Adrian told members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board.  “But we’re seeing a small light at the end of the tunnel.”  Adrian, co-owner of the Morgantown Industrial Park as part ...

Ribbon-cutting for new area headquarters in Morgantown

Hope Gas unveiled its new headquarters office Monday in Morgantown. Joined by Gov. Jim Justice and other dignitaries and community leaders, Hope Gas celebrated the job growth and economic development opportunities the energy industry offers to West Virginia. Hope Gas also announced more ...

Brad Smith named state’s richest

CHARLESTON — Forbes Magazine says the wealthiest man in West Virginia is no longer Gov. Jim Justice, but Brad Smith, president of Marshall and former president and CEO of Intuit Software in Silicon Valley. Forbes reporter Matt Durot wrote the article. “We figure he’s worth bout $700 million, which is about $250 million more that Gov. Jim Justice,” said Durot in a conversation on MetroNews Talkline Monday. Justice had held the top spot for several years, but Durot said the status had changed in the past few years with public reports of tax issues and mounting debt for ...