CHARLESTON — Less than 24 hours after Gov. Jim Justice received a somewhat hastily compiled list of secondary roads most in need of repair, the governor named former Raleigh County Commissioner Byrd White as the state’s next Department of Transportation secretary. “It is my number one ...
KINGWOOD — Preston County Commissioners took a conservative approach to the 2019-‘20 budget, with no raises, less carryover projected and more money set aside for regional jail costs. Commissioners Dave Price, Don Smith and Samantha Stone approved the tentative budget Monday. It now goes ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice has until midnight Wednesday to make a decision on the bills passed by state lawmakers during the 60-day regular legislative session. His office received final enrolled copies of 105 bills in the last two business days. “We received 59 bills on Friday and ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia has all the road repairs it can handle. “There’s almost 15,000 tasks that they sent in that they need done,” Byrd White, the state’s newly-appointed transportation secretary, said Tuesday morning on WJLS in Beckley. He was referring to lists ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia ended its season Monday the same way it was started. There was frustration over a severe lack of defense that simply led to a comedy of errors, while questions surrounded the status of freshman forward Derek Culver, who sat out the first half of the ...
MORGANTOWN — Jordan Lesley doesn’t mind seeing his defensive linemen eat chicken wings. At a dinner before the start of spring practice, he watched his linemen chow down on 350 of them. But one thing Lesley doesn’t want to see linemen eating? Blockers. “I don’t want guys ...
