MORGANTOWN — Outdoor enthusiasts hiked through the snow Saturday morning to take a tour of a proposed disc golf course to be built at Coopers Rock State […]
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Letters to the editor: March 2
WVU administration’s stand on bill appalling WVU’s administration must forcefully ally itself with WVU faculty and students to act decisively to stop the campus carry bill (HB […]
Senator Capito on anti-Muslim display at GOP event: ‘I deplore what happened’
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s top-ranking Republican, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, says there’s no place for the kind of anti-Muslim display that was part of a “GOP Day” […]
House Finance approves last-dollar-in community college grant bill
CHARLESTON – The House Finance Committee approved Friday evening a version of SB 1 – the last-dollar-in or “free community college” bill – slightly altered from what […]
Senate suspends rules to pass handful of bills Friday; Education chair says House teacher raise bill still alive
CHARLESTON — The Senate unexpectedly passed a handful of bills Friday dealing with severance taxes, paper checks and a few other matters. There were no bills on […]
Five arrested in drug raid Friday
MORGANTOWN — Five people were arrested after the Mon Metro Drug Task Force searched a home on Wabash Street on Friday. Three Maryland men are each charged […]
New Mon County magistrate named
MORGANTOWN — James Timothy Pocius has been named to fill Monongalia County Magistrate Court’s vacant seat. He was appointed by Chief Circuit Court Judge Susan Tucker in […]
Traffic on I-79 stopped for hours after accident
MORGANTOWN — A collision near mile marker 159 on Interstate 79 stopped traffic for about five hours on Friday. According to West Virginia 511, both lanes reopened […]
Senate Judiciary sails through approval of medical cannabis banking bill
CHARLESTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee breezed through approval of the medical cannabis program banking bill in a matter of minutes Friday morning. Sen. Mike Romano. D-Harrison, […]
House and Senate budgets part ways on teacher pay raises
CHARLESTON — The budgets in the state Senate and House of Delegates are on a collision course, with the biggest difference – predictably – a pay raise for […]
