MORGANTOWN – “Hold on to this photo,” Monongalia County Commission President Tom Bloom joked Wednesday evening outside the Mon County Center. “It may never happen again.” Regardless of what comes of the MidAtlantic Resiliency Link power transmission project in West Virginia, ...
CHARLESTON — Employees who defend themselves from attacks in the workplace could not be fired under a bill advanced Monday by the House Judiciary Committee. House Bill 5621 says that anyone who is physically attacked by a workplace intruder and responds with reasonable and proportionate ...
MORGANTOWN — A bill aimed at preventing abuse of absentee ballots is giving the House Judiciary Committee some mild headaches. A revised version of the bill designed to fix some problems in the introduced version still raised too many questions in committee on Friday and was referred to a ...
MORGANTOWN — Two candidates vying to succeed Sen. Mike Caputo in the state Senate 13th District have begun their fundraising. And in the 2nd District, incumbent Republican Mike Maroney is up for re-election and faces a primary challenger in Chris Rose, who gave up a U.S. Senate campaign to ...
FAIRMONT – Delegate Joey Garcia, D-Marion, announced on Tuesday that he is running to succeed Sen. Mike Caputo in the 13th Senate District in the 2024 election. Garcia delivered his announcement downtown at Veterans Square, to a crowd of family, friends and other supporters. Among them ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s corrections commissioner said a state of emergency for the jails system first declared last August will need to continue. And lawmakers on a committee overseeing the jails system say they’re still working toward recruitment and retention of jail ...