Federal appeals court judges have ruled that West Virginia’s law forbidding the participation of transgender athletes on school sports teams violates the rights of a middle school track and cross-country runner, upending an earlier district court ruling. The case was decided Tuesday by a ...
Four financial institutions have been cast into darkness for state banking services over their environmental policies. State Treasurer Riley Moore’s office this week said it has placed Citigroup Inc.; TD Bank, N.A.; The Northern Trust Company and HSBC Holdings, PLC onto the state’s ...
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $2,667,724 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three West Virginia projects. The funding will support research into improving West Virginia manufacturing for the defense industry, resources to ...
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE CHARLESTON — The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has had a ripple effect in West Virginia. With the bridge in the water and the search for missing workers still underway, shipping in and out of the Baltimore Harbor is at a standstill. The ...
A controversial bill affecting West Virginia’s unemployment system is now law after Gov. Jim Justice took no action on it. The governor had until midnight Wednesday to sign or veto dozens of bills. By about 5:30 p.m., the governor’s office sent out a statement saying he had taken ...
Lawmakers who supported a bill with exceptions to West Virginia’s school vaccination policies predict it will be back next year and bigger than ever. “If I have any say in it, absolutely,” said Sen. Patricia Rucker, R-Jefferson. Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday vetoed a bill ...