Wild mushrooms thrive in thickly wooded, damp environments. With its extensive forests and prodigious rainfall, West Virginia hosts a wonderfully rich diversity of these fungi. The West Virginia Department of Natural Resource has recorded over 1,700 species growing wild. Not all are safe to ...
CHARLESTON — Delegates Monday advanced a bill specifying the Legislature has the ability to bring legal actions against state government officials who make or attempt unauthorized changes in state election laws. Another element of House Bill 4205 would allow citizens to seek a court ...
During a press event at the West Virginia State Capitol Friday, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, along with T-Mobile executive Edwige Robinson, highlighted the impact of a $200 million investment from T-Mobile in the Mountain State. The state has traditionally been ranked near the bottom of ...
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 ...
CHARLESTON — Senate Majority Leader Tom Takubo, who is also a pulmonologist, supports a bill that would establish a tax credit for physicians who locate to West Virginia to practice medicine. Takubo, R-Kanawha, spoke in favor of SB208 as it advanced from the Senate Health and Human ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s court system is asking for $160,244,954 for the coming fiscal year, an amount that reflects increased costs — but that also might require more. Last year, the court system’s budget request was about $154 million. “We have, I believe, right-sized ...