MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice joined the chorus of voices supporting the proposed I-79 Harmony Grove interchange. He announced his – and the state government's – support on Friday. “Morgantown and all of north-central West Virginia is a region of our state that continues to grow ...
MORGANTOWN – Gayle Manchin, federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, shared her vision of how ARC can help West Virginian move forward with an audience of local and state leaders gathered Wednesday for the West Virginia Public Education Collaborative's Focus Forward ...
MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates spent a bit over an hour Tuesday morning debating a bill to create a new economic development fund — what some called the key bill of the two-day special session — before passing it overwhelmingly. As Finance chair Eric Householder, R-Berkeley, ...
MORGANTOWN – The Legislature breezed through 12 bills during the first day of its April special session. The process saw only one real glitch when the House of Delegates refused to fast-track passage of a bill limiting the number of medical cannabis testing laboratories to two until Jan. ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice announced on Tuesday that he has vetoed a bill tied to economic development funding for technical errors, but plans to call a special session in April to allow the Legislature to fix it and re-pass it. The bill is SB 279 and was intended to create a ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates is taking a second shot at putting an amendment into the state Constitution to subject state Board of Education rule-making to legislative oversight. The House adopted HJR 102 on Tuesday and sent it to the Senate. If the Senate also adopts it, the ...