CHARLESTON — The lawsuit over Gov. Jim Justice’s residency has a new legal twist that goes back to 1889. The current case is about whether Justice defies the West Virginia Constitution by continuing to live in Lewisburg, rather than at the seat of government. Kanawha Circuit Judge James ...
School’s out, but the Morgantown Public Library is still very much in session. “We have big things we do at all the locations for the summer,” said Sarah Palfrey, director of the Morgantown Public Library system, which in addition to the downtown location, includes branches in ...
Monongalia County will soon have a new set of emergency operation plans that use a flexible framework called emergency support functions. “There’s 15 ESFs, or emergency support functions, and they deal with everything from public works to transportation to medical care, HAZMAT, fire, all the way to 15 and 16 deal with long term recovery and housing,” Mike Fortney, assistant emergency manager for MECCA 911 said. Old emergency plans read like books and could be inches thick while the ESFs are a bullet point list and only a few pages long, Fortney said. Director Jim Smith said ...
The interest is still there, but not like it was five years ago when oil and natural gas was booming in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania. As a result, experts at the three area law schools — West Virginia University, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University — said interest in energy law has waned somewhat as the industry has matured in West Virginia and in Pennsylvania and is not the economic panacea as hoped. “We have not seen a huge spike,” said Amy Wildermuth, dean of Pitt law. “What we have seen is an uptick in interest in public service and public interest ...
WHEELING — Three mineral and surface owner advocates gave natural gas royalty owners a look on Saturday at past and future legislation affecting their land and leases. The owners were attending the National Association of Royalty Owners Appalachia annual conference, called Fueling the ...
WHEELING — Natural gas royalty owners learned Saturday morning about a new leasing challenge enabled by ever-lengthening horizontal well laterals that may ooze its way into West Virginia. It’s called cross-unit drilling. It’s underway in Pennsylvania and a bill to make it legal is ...
