Candidate meeting: Putnam County Commission
Candidates for Putnam County Commission are meeting today at 12:30 with editors from the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Three Republicans — Ronald Reagan Foster, Dusty Hurley or Joseph Tyree — are vying for...
View ArticleCURA to update downtown, West Side revival plans for first time since 1985
By Elaina Sauber The Charleston Urban Renewal Authority hasn't updated its revival plans for downtown and the near West Side since they were first adopted in 1985. Those long-expired strategies...
View ArticleWV to test welfare recipients for drugs
By Eric Eyre The West Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that mandates drug testing for welfare recipients. "I expect people who live off my tax money to be drug...
View ArticleTomblin vetoes abortion ban; WV lawmakers plan override
By Eric Eyre West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin vetoed legislation Wednesday that would outlaw the most common procedure for second-trimester abortions. State lawmakers are expected to override the...
View ArticleDetroit man gets life in prison for Rand shooting
By Kate White Antoinette Maxwell pressed her fingers against her eyes in the courtroom Wednesday. "Amen," she said upon hearing the judge tell Leonard Thomas, the man convicted of killing her son,...
View ArticleJudges appointed for public campaign financing, magistrate cases
By Kate White All five state Supreme Court Justices have voluntarily recused themselves from cases involving public campaign financing money in the upcoming election to fill the open Supreme Court...
View ArticleDEP's Huffman: Focus on how to deal with climate change
By Ken Ward Jr. The nation should be focused on how to do something about global warming, not continuing to bicker about whether the climate is really changing, state Department of Environmental...
View ArticleGovernor not impressed with legislative budget proposals
By Phil Kabler Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Wednesday he's not impressed with legislative proposals to balance the 2016-17 budget - particularly the House of Delegates' plan to sweep unexpended funds...
View ArticleBlade signs may return to downtown Charleston
By Elaina Sauber Downtown Charleston is one step closer to allow projecting signs from storefronts - with a few restrictions. The Municipal Planning Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to...
View ArticleWV school board passes resolution opposing standards, testing bill
By Ryan Quinn The West Virginia Board of Education voted Wednesday to pass a resolution strongly opposing a bill - up for amendments and a possible final vote in the Legislature Thursday - that would...
View ArticleDrug court program, graduates to be honored at Capitol
By Kate White It's a lot easier to go to jail than participate in adult drug court, LaKeisha Barron-Brown, a probation officer in Putnam County, said she often hears. Lawmakers on Thursday at the...
View ArticleWV Senate Dems to protest GOP nominee rejections
By Phil Kabler Outraged that the Republican-led Senate Confirmations Committee blocked half a dozen gubernatorial appointments Wednesday in what the committee's chairwoman said was a "partisan thing,"...
View ArticleSenate approves bill changing school calendar requirements
By Ryan Quinn West Virginia's Senate approved Wednesday a bill that would end a requirement - which the governor has supported in the past - for a minimum of 180 separate instructional days for K-12...
View ArticleSenate close to passing legislation allowing electric bill surcharges
By Andrew Brown West Virginia lawmakers are getting close to passing a bill that would allow electric utility companies to place surcharges on people's monthly bills in order to retrofit boilers at...
View ArticlePutnam commission candidates differ on fire service fee
By Laura Haight It's been three years since Putnam County officials raised the county's fire service fee by 50 percent, but the fee has proven to be a hot topic in the race for county commission....
View ArticleClinton, Sanders bid for momentum in Miami debate
By By Nancy Benac and Lisa Lerer The Associated Press MIAMI - Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate Wednesday night over who's the true...
View ArticleWV lawmakers override veto, make 'dismemberment' abortion bill law
By Eric Eyre Over objections from doctors and medical groups, West Virginia legislators have put into law a ban on the most common abortion procedure for pregnancies in the second trimester. The House...
View ArticleFirst case of Zika virus confirmed in WV
By Lydia Nuzum A Clay County man who traveled to Haiti is West Virginia's first confirmed case of the Zika virus, the state Department of Health and Human Resources said Thursday. The Bureau for...
View ArticlePhotos: Drug Court Day celebrates lives saved by intervention
More than 100 people gathered in the Capitol Rotunda to celebrate Drug Court Day at the Legislature, held Thursday to honor the 1,343 graduates of West Virginia's adult and juvenile drug courts....
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