West Virginia News

West Virginia's tax modernization project is back on, but that doesn't mean businesses and individuals should necessarily expect lower taxes in the near future.

Some of West Virginia 's largest cities can soon freeze and gradually pay down their daunting pension funding shortfalls, after the House of Delegates sent Gov.

When I first came to West Virginia more than 40 years ago, it was to work with coal miners and their families.

Beneath a life-sized statue of history's longest-serving U.S. lawmaker, West Virginia officials were paying tribute to Sen.

West Virginia school boards worried about paying for retiree benefits may go without temporary relief from the Legislature, after the Senate Finance Committee voted Wednesday to reject Gov.

WASHINGTON a ' The Senate is a resolutely superlative place, so it was resolved that the august body today will open its session by saluting Sen.

LAWRENCE MESSINA Feds indict 5 in scam that allegedly fooled state agencies into paying $3.3M to fake companies CHARLESTON, W.Va. - CHARLESTON, W.Va. a ' A federal grand jury in West Virginia has linked five more people to an international scam that allegedly tricked government agencies in several states into paying at least $3.3 million to bogus ...

A convenience store chain is donating money to 22 schools in West Virginia. One Stop, headquartered in Belle, announced that they have secured $750 grants for 22 West Virginia schools through the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance Program.

West Virginia's public utility consumer agency wants the state to reject Frontier Communications' plan to purchase more than 600,000 telephone access lines from Verizon.

Local high schools in southern West Virginia will take part in a veteran program.

A panel studying West Virginia's judicial system says the state needs another appeals court to lighten the state Supreme Court's caseload.

A fallen soldier is back home. Twenty-five-year-old Spec. Julian Berisford of Benwood died Nov.

Twelve of the 145 candidates who sat for the computer-based Certified Public Accountant examination in July and August successfully completed it, the West Virginia Board of Accountancy said.

West Virginia's plans to expand its Medicaid program have been put on hold while Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system.

The Saturday Evening Post article written by Roul Tunley triggered the ire of the Mountain State by putting the region's poverty issues again into the national spotlight.

City leaders from across West Virginia are getting together to talk about population decline, aging infrastructure and other challenges facing them.

A former home improvement store clerk in West Virginia has been charged with discounting $20,000 worth of merchandise to win a man's heart.

Staff lawyers for the state Public Service Commission continue to press for the dismissal of an application to build a multistate power line through West Virginia.

An array of West Virginia's top political leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday with executives from the state's top coal producers, vowing to form a united front in the face of what they call mixed signals and heavy-handedness from federal mining regulators.

A conference in Beckley focused on funding for building, operating and maintaining our state roads.