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 ...
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware has ordered West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice to provide information about his finances to attorneys for a Pennsylvania coal exporter who have sued to collect $1.9 million owed by Justice and one of his coal companies.
Justice, who is running for ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A program offering cash and free outdoor adventures to remote workers to move to West Virginia with the hope of offsetting population losses has added a fifth destination where out-of-state workers can apply to live.
The public-private program Ascend West Virginia ...
By ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press
Wind and solar power are sometimes dinged for not producing electricity 24 hours a day, but one of the most abundant minerals on the planet, iron, could be key to changing that.
Form Energy, founded in 2017, recently broke ground in West Virginia on ...
West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has resigned a day after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving in the latest incident in a Hall of Fame career that imploded quickly.
The university announced the resignation Saturday night. It came a month after the university suspended him for ...
By JEFF AMY Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was elected to chair the influential Southern Regional Education Board, a 16-state body that gives policy advice to states from Delaware to Texas.
The Republican Kemp was elected Sunday to lead the body for the next 12 ...
By AINSLEY HALL, The Journal
KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Southwood Farm Forge is holding special blacksmith classes throughout the summer for students interested in learning about the trade.
Eric Johnson, owner of Southwood Farm Forge and participant in the Over the Mountain Studio Tour, ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting West Virginia Sgt. Cory S. Maynard is set to appear in court Friday, two days after services were held to honor the slain state police officer.
Timothy Kennedy is scheduled to appear before a ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A company that recycles plastic into hydrogen and other clean fuels is coming to a small West Virginia community near Charleston, creating an anticipated full-time 40 jobs, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday.
In 2024, ...
BEECH CREEK, W.Va. (AP) — A state police officer was fatally shot Friday in southern West Virginia, and a suspect was being sought, authorities said.
Sgt. Cory Maynard was killed in the shooting, Gov. Jim Justice said in a statement, adding that he was "absolutely heartbroken." He and first ...