CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates moved Friday to send a bill it passed the day before creating education savings accounts to the House Finance Committee after concerns about its price tag. House Majority Leader Amy Summers, R-Taylor, moved to have the House reconsider its ...
CHARLESTON — Republican voters in West Virginia overwhelmingly approve of Gov. Jim Justice’s handling of the nearly yearlong pandemic, but are split on the governor’s tax reform proposals. Jackson County radio station WMOV 1360 AM and Oregon-based Triton Polling and Research released the ...
CHARLESTON - Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday that COVID-19 regulations and rules for restaurants, bars, businesses, grocery stores, and schools will be eased due to plummeting coronavirus cases and increased vaccinations. Justice said he was issuing a series of executive orders Friday to ...
WHEELING — Whenever the Ohio Valley is hit with one snow storm after the next, maintaining the proper material supplies, vehicle and equipment maintenance, and employee scheduling, are just a few things city and state officials keep a close watch over. The area is expected to get some ...
WHEELING — Wheeling Mayor Glenn Elliott voiced strong opposition this week to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s recent call for a phase-out of the state’s income tax. Justice most recently in his State of the State address urged legislators to take steps to repeal the income tax in an ...
WHEELING — A man who was wanted for a homicide last month in Washington, Pennsylvania, and a separate shooting in Donora, Pennsylvania, was discovered dead Thursday in a relative’s residence in Wheeling. Washington police Chief Robert Wilson said his department was still investigating the ...
WHEELING — The Poor People’s Campaign is calling out U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin for his stated opposition to the Biden Administration’s request to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Manchin, D-West Virginia, has instead suggested raising the minimum wage over time in increments, ...
CHARLESTON — A solid majority of the West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Thursday creating the state’s first education savings account program over the objections of Democrats and a handful of Republicans. House Bill 2013, creating the Hope Scholarship, passed 60-39 Thursday. ...
CHARLESTON — An attempt by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to give the Legislature say on the current state of emergency for the COVID-19 failed in a narrow vote Thursday. The House of Delegates voted 47-51 against an amendment to House Bill 2003, relating to the authority and obligations of ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Thursday allowing for people moving to West Virginia to bring their out-of-state occupational licenses with them, though some lawmakers believe this will weaken the state’s rules and regulations. House Bill 2007, creating the ...
The Wheeling Police Department is investigating after a Pennsylvania man was found dead on Wheeling Island early Thursday morning. Police were called to a house on North Broadway Street around 6:30 a.m. Thursday for an initial medical emergency. The person involved was taken to the hospital, ...
Wheeling police detectives are investigating the death of a person after a man’s body was found on the shoreline of the Ohio River mid Thursday morning. Around 9:45 a.m., the Ohio County 911 Center was notified of the body by a pedestrian on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge. Shortly after ...
WHEELING — U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley wonders what will happen to communities such as Cadiz if gas, coal and fossil fuel production is stopped by Biden administration policies. McKinley, R-West Virginia, serves as ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and ...
WHEELING — The city of Wheeling’s COVID-19 Small Retail Business B&O Tax Credit was approved this week, and city leaders are hopeful a new federal stimulus package will provide additional funds the city can use to help struggling local retailers. During this week’s meeting of ...
CHARLESTON — The governor may discuss easing pandemic restrictions on schools and businesses Friday, he said during Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing. Gov. Jim Justice also announced additional dosages of the vaccines next week and changes to the state coronavirus information dashboard to ...
CHARLESTON — A bill that would exempt state employees from paying municipal service fees has cities on edge. The House Political Subdivisions Committee laid over House Bill 2256 on Wednesday, expecting to take the bill up again in seven days. HB 2256 – introduced by Del. Brandon Steele, ...
Old Man Winter might not be done just yet with the Ohio Valley. After several inches of snow fell last week and Monday, followed by freezing rain Monday night, the Valley could see yet another bout of snow today. The National Weather Service bureau in Pittsburgh has issued a winter weather ...
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS For The Intelligencer CHARLESTON — An amendment offered on the floor of the House of Delegates on Wednesday by a freshman lawmaker could expand the scope and price tag of a proposed education savings account program up for passage today. The House approved two ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates approved a bill Wednesday to prioritize economic development and tourism in the state after a lengthy debate over whether the bill was needed or not. House Bill 2019, elevating the West Virginia Development Office and the Division of Tourism ...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals, foretold the rise of Donald Trump and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right, died Wednesday. He was 70. ...
