MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice was at the Greenbrier Valley Airport on Tuesday with a great big check for $5 million. The timing of the visit wasn’t lost on Morgantown Municipal Airport Executive Director Jonathan Vrabel, who, that same day, was pleading his case to state ...
BY MIKE NOLTING CHARLESTON — The last act of the House of Delegates during the special session call this week was to approve $12 million in funding for struggling volunteer fire departments and EMS units. The Senate amended the bill funding source from the state surplus to a permanent ...
CHARLESTON — State lawmakers made progress on a long special session agenda Monday but will need at least today to finish the bills on Gov. Jim Justice’s agenda. A six-bill package that would make changes in the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is on its way to ...
The $45 million shortfall West Virginia University faces is still some of the biggest news around town. In the past week, we’ve discussed the issue in terms of what the university could have done and should do (or not do) in the future. But there are multiple factors at play, which is why, ...
KINGWOOD — Members of the Kingwood Sanitary Sewer Board received an update about the Crogan Lift and Miller/Pleasant Project during their Monday evening meeting. Eleni Knight, an engineer from Civil & Environmental Consultants (CEC), recommended the board borrow the $2,500,000 for ...
Tunnelton Volunteer Fire Department in Preston County will get money to help it grow. It is one of two VFDs in West Virginia to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the ...