TRIADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania resident recently came to Howard’s Diamond Center at The Highlands to purchase a 4-carat diamond ring. He paid a lower sales tax rate than he would have at an Allegheny County retailer. The ring cost more than $18,000. The current West Virginia consumer sales ...
WHEELING — After being delayed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wheeling Fire Department and the American Red Cross Ohio River Valley Chapter are resuming their plans to install nearly 200 free smoke alarms as part of their “Sound the Alarm” campaign. Sharon Kesselring, ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced a new round of easing Friday for COVID-19 restrictions on residents and businesses as coronavirus statistics continue to trend in better directions. Speaking during his Friday morning COVID-19 briefing from the State Capitol Building, Justice said ...
The Northern Panhandle’s four counties all found themselves in the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources Friday COVID-19 alert map. Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties all were green on the Friday DHHR map, part of an overwhelming group of green counties in ...
WHEELING — As the tendrils of the COVID-19 pandemic began to wrap themselves tighter around West Virginia, as the number of people in hospitals, on ventilators or had died continued to climb, Gov. Jim Justice and the experts he leaned on to combat the virus had to make vital, life-saving ...
WHEELING — Beginning Monday, motorists are advised to use caution and be aware of daily lane closures and changes in downtown Wheeling near 16th and Main streets as the city’s nearly year-long waterline replacement project is expected to begin. Pro Contracting Incorporated will begin the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin struck a deal late Friday over emergency jobless benefits, breaking a nine-hour logjam that had stalled the party’s showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. The compromise, announced by the West Virginia ...
MOUNDSVILLE — With this week’s progress on the American Rescue Plan of 2021 — aimed at offering several avenues to secure federal funding for local, state and tribal governments impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic — Moundsville city administrators hope the bill will bring them some ...
CHARLESTON — As Gov. Jim Justice prepared to meet with lawmakers Friday to sell his personal income tax cut and tax increase plans, leaders of the Legislature’s two finance committees said they were keeping an open mind on Justice’s proposals. Justice released details and draft bill ...
WHEELING — Families once again will get the chance to learn about the history and sweet science of maple syrup production, as a popular Oglebay event returns from a one-year hiatus. Molly Check, director of Oglebay Institute’s Schrader Environmental Education Center, said Maple Sugaring ...
WHEELING — A local favorite chef in Weirton is now bringing his skills to the Alpha Tavern. Late last month, the Alpha Tavern welcomed Alan Huffman to its kitchen. Huffman formerly operated the Spicy Gringos restaurant in Weirton before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the restaurant to shut ...
WHEELING — During the month of March, many people enjoy celebrating Irish heritage — even folks who have not a drop of Irish blood in them. But one Wheeling resident is celebrating his own Irish ancestry and has found a clever way to share it with others. Jack Bodkin is a retired ...
WHEELING — The city of Wheeling’s offices will reopen to the public on Monday. The offices have been accessible by appointment only since Dec. 7, when they were closed due to a surge in positive COVID-19 cases in Ohio County. City Manager Robert Herron said guidelines will remain in ...
WHEELING — The regular monthly meeting of the Wheeling Planning Commission, originally scheduled to take place at 5 p.m. Monday has been canceled due to lack of business.
Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday morning that all bars and restaurants in West Virginia are now allowed to return to 100-percent seating capacity, provided that social distancing can be maintained to keep down the spread of COVID-19. "I encourage everyone there to just use good sense," ...
Read the abstract of Gov. Jim Justice's income tax repeal plan by clicking here (if it doesn't appear on your screen, please check your download folder) CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice revealed Thursday specific details about his personal income tax phase-out plan. According to an abstract of ...
Crews continue to cut away and remove old steel beams from the eastbound sections of the Fulton Bridge on Thursday as part of the I-70 Bridges Project. Meanwhile, other crews worked on preparing new steel caps scheduled to be moved into place next week as part of the ongoing construction of the ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Park High School speech team is on its way to a 41st consecutive state championship this month, but this time members take a virtual highway and not a school bus to get there. “We’re still on the road to number 41,” said captain Lauren Marquart. “We just hit ...
The state of West Virginia now has more than 200,000 residents fully vaccinated from COVID-19. According to the Department of Health and Human Resources on Thursday, 202,401 state residents have been fully vaccinated. There also have been 307,532 first doses of vaccine administered throughout ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates voted Thursday to approve, for a second time, a bill creating an education savings account program after the House Finance Committee fixed issues with the legislation. House Bill 2013 creating the Hope Scholarship passed 57-42 Thursday after ...
