MORGANTOWN – The Monongalia County Commission on Wednesday approved increased salaries for the county’s elected officials, as well as an adjustment to the sheriff’s commission on taxes, in accordance with increases approved during the 2026 session of the West Virginia ...
CHARLESTON — The state Senate, after a couple of days of delays, passed a bill representing pay raises for some state employees and another phasing out taxes on Social Security benefits. The bills are key components of what could shape up as the state’s general revenue budget. The ...
CHARLESTON — Pay raise bills for educators, state police and non-uniformed corrections workers were advanced through the House Finance Committee. “It’s basically the governor’s pay raise bill as he proposed in his budget is what got passed,” said Delegate Matthew Rohrbach, ...
West Virginia’s non-uniformed corrections workers would receive pay raises under a bill advanced by the House Jails and Prisons Committee. As committee discussion noted, uniformed corrections officers received pay raises as an outcome of a special legislative session in August. The bill ...
Gov. Jim Justice indicated flexibility if lawmakers choose a pay raise for educators at a higher price tag than he’s already advocated. “There’s plenty of wiggle room in mine,” Justice said during an administration briefing. “If we have dollars, these folks are hard-working. ...
CHARLESTON — Pay raise bills for West Virginia educators passed their first committee hurdle with a more ambitious proposal than what had been publicly discussed up to now, but there’s still much more to go. The House Education Committee passed two bills providing pay raises for ...