CHARLESTON — The Senate Finance Committee passed a bill establishing a Rainy Day Fund for PEIA without a big portion of the funding. This was part of the $150 million Gov. Jim Justice promised to shore up the Public Employees Insurance Agency, which covers teachers and other state ...
CHARLESTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee approved on Thursday morning a revised version of HB 2079, the bill enabling vertical integration of medical cannabis operations. Most of the changes are technical. One significant change was made in coordination with the House, and the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia legislators are lined up to pass a budget in the next day or so, holding off on a teacher pay raise and other changes to the public school system until work is done in a special session. Talk of a special session swirled for days at the Capitol, ...
CHARLESTON — The Senate Finance Committee approved a stretched-out, slowed-down version of the bill to reduce the bill to reduce the severance tax on steam coal from 5 percent to 3 percent. The committee also approved one of the two House bills aimed at gathering money to cap orphaned oil ...
CHARLESTON — “I’m just plain guilty,” the words from former state Supreme Court Justice Menis Ketchum when he spoke before U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver Wednesday at his sentencing hearing on a fraud conviction. “I’m sorry, but sorry is no excuse,” Ketchum, 76, told the ...
KINGWOOD — A woman accused of killing a child who was in her care was among 50 indictments returned by the Preston County Grand Jury Wednesday. The jury met for two days and handed up indictments for a range of crimes, including selling drugs, theft, soliciting minors by computer, ...
