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 – COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh passed along the news on Tuesday that the FDA has authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for people age 50 and up who are at least four months past their prior dose of any authorized vaccine. The CDC's Advisory Committee ...
MORGANTOWN — Friday was a bad news-good news day at the governor's COVID briefing. The bad news was that the death toll reached 6,739, with Gov. Jim Justice announcing 88 deaths since his Monday briefing (47 of those being reconciliations of prior deaths just reaching the state ...
MORGANTOWN – Legislative Democratic leaders renewed their call for a gas tax holiday during a Tuesday press conference. Responding to comments against the idea issued last week by the governor, the Senate president and House speaker, Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin, D-Greenbrier, ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced a new COVID-19 vaccination due date calendar and a new assistance program for homeowners affected by COVID during his Monday briefing. COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh said the due date calendar was developed by WVU working with the Joint Interagency Task ...
The West Virginia University School of Nursing received $2 million through West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s Nursing Workforce Expansion Program, which is designed to address the state’s nursing shortage through a multifaceted approach to attract, train and retain nurses in the Mountain ...