CHARLESTON — Sweating it out on the state’s hottest day of the year, voters on Tuesday were choosing presidential, gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and U.S. House candidates in West Virginia’s Democratic and Republican primaries. They also were deciding a majority of the five-member state ...
CHARLESTON — Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango won the Democratic nomination for governor of West Virginia on Tuesday, setting up a November showdown with incumbent Republican Gov. Jim Justice. Salango narrowly defeated progressive community organizer Stephen Smith to win the ...
KINGWOOD — With all 28 precincts reporting, unofficial results Tuesday showed Bruce Huggins winning the only contested seat on the Preston County Board of Education. There were four candidates in the board race. Jeanne Dreisbach ran in District 1. Huggins and Peter Liga ran ...
Nancy Walker apparently won’t need a note from home to keep her seat on the Monongalia County Board of Education — even if absentee voters gave their good grades early on.Walker, who has served more than 20 years on the board, quickly emerged as the top vote-getter in the three-person ...
MORGANTOWN -- With the primary now behind us, November’s contest for the Eastern District seat on the Monongalia County Commission can begin in earnest. Both Republican incumbent Ed Hawkins and Democrat challenger Jeff Arnett were unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. Hawkins, the current ...
MORGANTOWN -- Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., will face Democrat Natalie Cline, of Wheeling, in November for the U.S House of Representatives 1st District seat. With 458 of 557 precincts in the 20 counties reporting, Cline held a substantial lead over Tom Payne, of Keyser, in the Democratic ...