The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) shared updates and changes to department programs in its Bureau for Medical Services and Bureau for Family Assistance effective with the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) on Thursday. Bureau for Medical ...
CHARLESTON — The World Health Organization announced Friday that COVID is no longer a public health emergency. “The emergency is over, but we have started many initiatives to prepare the world, and we need to continue that — that commitment,” World Health Organization Director ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice favors keeping Pleasants Power Station up and running, he said during his Wednesday administration briefing. “It would be a crying shame to let the plant die,” he said in response to a question about the Public Service Commission's planned hearing on the ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — West Virginia leaders are preparing for the federal disaster declaration to end in May in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. State InterAgency Task Force Director Jim Hoyer said there are a few steps the state will need to take to make sure they ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) has received approval from the United States Department of Agriculture to issue Summer Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT). The federal COVID-19 public health emergency is ending, and West Virginia will ...
On Monday, State Senate Finance Chair Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Office of Inspector General asking it to potentially look into whether Gov. Jim Justice and his administration mishandled CARES Act monies. At issue are $28,375,985.34 in CARES money that ...