Just before midnight Tuesday, Gov. Jim Justice announced he tested positive for COVID-19. He said he has made alternate arrangements for his State of the State Address and he canceled his Wednesday COVID briefing. Here is the statement from his office in full, plus a comment from COVID-19 ...
MORGANTOWN — The sixth and final bill the Legislature approved Tuesday during its two-day special session is expected to help bring 125 to 140 jobs to the Morgantown area. SB 1006 appropriates $15 million of unspent general revenue to the Economic Development Department's Economic ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's legislative leaders described their goals for the 2022 session – which starts Jan. 12 – during Friday's West Virginia Press Association Legislative Lookahead. With the pandemic and with most of the state covered in fresh snow, it was a Zoom conference ...
FAIRMONT – Leadership Marion devoted its monthly visit to an area business to look at WVU Medicine's Fairmont Medical Center Thursday morning. The group, through the Marion Chamber of Commerce, visits sites across the county to to raise awareness and generate community involvement said ...
MORGANTOWN – William Ihlenfeld, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, has been elected to chair the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Executive Board. HIDTA is composed of drug task forces from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia is seeking CDC permission to offer a second Pfizer booster shot to certain residents, Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday. The second booster — also called a fourth shot — would be for those age 50 and up, for the immunocompromised and for essential workers, he ...
