CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting has stepped down after one year on the job, the latest sign of upheaval at a news outlet recently shaken by a reporter's allegation that she was fired for writing an unfavorable story about a division of the ...
Former West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins has entered a 12-month diversion program to resolve a drunken driving arrest.
Huggins had been scheduled for a formal arraignment on Thursday. According to court records in Pittsburgh, that hearing was canceled last month after he was ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Houston energy transition company is planning a $2 billion investment to produce clean hydrogen with natural gas in West Virginia, a project estimated to create up to 800 permanent jobs, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday.
Once it clears regulatory hurdles, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said that he has been thinking "seriously" about leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent.
The West Virginia lawmaker, who has raised his national profile as a swing vote on major spending packages in the closely divided U.S. ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia University on Friday recommended the elimination of 32, or 9%, of the majors offered on its Morgantown campus along with a wide-ranging reduction in faculty to address a $45 million budget shortfall.
A dozen majors recommended to be axed are ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday granted a motion to dismiss a challenge to construction permits for a controversial natural gas pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia after Congress mandated that the project move forward.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.
The inaction since — fueled by denials and lobbying from coal and other industries — has ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Staff at Women's Health Center of West Virginia know what it's like to provide controversial health services that government officials have sought to ban or restrict.
The Charleston clinic was the state's only abortion provider for years until the state Legislature ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The lives of hundreds of students like Ashton Miller were thrown into disarray after a debt-ridden university in West Virginia announced just before the start of fall classes that it plans to cease operations.
Alderson Broaddus University's Board of Trustees voted ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia University Board of Governors gave President E. Gordon Gee a one-year contract extension Monday amid a budget shortfall, falling enrollment and plans to cut some academic offerings.
Gee, 79, was given an extension through June 2025 during the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The board overseeing West Virginia's four-year colleges and universities voted Monday to revoke a small Baptist university's ability to award degrees, in response to its staggering debts.
Alderson Broaddus University will be prohibited from awarding degrees starting ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia.
Work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline had been blocked by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Higher education officials called off an emergency meeting to address financial struggles at a small West Virginia university after the governor stepped in while the school made arrangements to pay off a whopping $775,000 in utility debts.
The Higher Education Policy ...
WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Months after Missy Nester ended The Welch News' 100-year run, she can barely stand to walk through the office doors of the newspaper her mother taught her to read with growing up in West Virginia's southern coalfields. It's too painful.
The Welch News owner and ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses West Virginia State Police troopers of using excessive force in tackling and handcuffing a man who was walking along an interstate highway.
Edmond Exline, 45, of Hagerstown, Maryland, died at a hospital after the Feb. 12 incident along I-81 near ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.
The inaction since — fueled by denials and lobbying from coal and other industries — has ...
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — A physician with decades of experience working in emergency rooms in the southern West Virginia coalfields was on Wednesday named the first board director of a nonprofit tasked with distributing much of the state's over $1 billion in opioid settlement money.
Dr. Tony ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is finalizing the leadership for a newly created foundation tasked with distributing the lion's share of the more than $1 billion in opioid lawsuit-settlement money coming to the state with the nation's highest overdose death rate.
That means funding ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Board of Education appointed Michele Blatt as the state schools superintendent Friday after accepting the retirement of David Roach in fallout over a review of a county school system's pandemic spending.
The board voted unanimously to accept the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With more cuts expected, West Virginia University's governing board moved forward Friday with slashing 12 graduate and doctorate programs amid a $45 million budget shortfall and approved a just under 3 percent tuition increase.
The estimated $1.2 billion fiscal year ...