CHARLESTON — House of Delegates Democratic leaders gathered Thursday morning to decry the governor's COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill, HB 335. “I'm concerned about the message our governor is sending,” Minority Leader Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, said. On the one hand, Gov. Jim Justice says ...
Gov. Jim Justice began Wednesday’s COVID-19 press conference as he always does, adding to the state’s tally of the dead. Twenty-two additional deaths since Monday brought West Virginia’s total to 3,998. Eleven of the 22 deaths were a result of the Bureau for Public Health’s ...
CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice added a COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill to the special session call Wednesday that has generated opposition from the medical and business communities. The bill – HB 335 in the House, SB 3035 in the Senate – says an employer that requires vaccination for ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com After revealing the winner of a brand new Corvette on Friday, Gov. Jim Justice hit the road again Tuesday to announce the rest of the prize recipients in the final drawing for his Do It For Babydog: Round 2 vaccine sweepstakes. Of those, a few were local folks, ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program announced that West Virginia’s statewide seat belt usage rate is 88.12% for 2021, down from 90.2% for 2019. The national average is 90%. The previous record for West Virginia seat belt ...
MORGANTOWN – Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Crouch said Thursday that the Save Our Care program to help hospitals and nursing facilities cope with the Delta surge is ready to roll. Crouch said they'll be sending out $17 million in the next few days to facilities ...