MORGANTOWN -- The fiscal year 2026 budgets passed this week by the Morgantown Utility Board include 3% rate increases starting July 1 for the utility’s water, sewer and stormwater customers. This is the third and final “inflationary adjustment” approved for MUB’s 2024, 2025 and ...
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Sheriff Todd Forbes said you’d likely have to go back the better part of a decade — to the tenure of former Sheriff Al Kisner — to find the last time the sheriff’s department had a full complement of deputies. But if all goes according to plan, the ...
MORGANTOWN - It’s a struggle of attrition. If 20 people sign up for police civil service testing, 10 might show up. Of that 10, five might pass the written and physical tests. Of that five, two might make it through the subsequent background checks, polygraph test and psychological ...
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 ...
The West Virginia Legislature adopted a resolution during the final week of the session extending the State of Emergency in the state’s correctional institutions. Gov. Jim Justice first declared the emergency last August because of severe staffing shortages, and then mobilized the National ...
Gov. Jim Justice said his administration will continue to support West Virginia’s overloaded jail system while also searching for better ways to recruit and retain corrections officers. Justice declared an emergency in the corrections system in August because of staffing shortages. The ...