West Virginia News

Nov. 25, 2009 AAA FUEL GAUGE: Gasoline Prices Dip Almost a Penny in West Virginia Special to Huntingtonnews.net As West Virginia motorists prepare to head to their Thanksgiving Day destinations, they will find gas prices at the pump have dropped just under a penny.

The West Virginia Division of Air Quality is giving the public more time to weigh in on an air pollution permit for a planned coal-to-gasoline plant in the southern coalfields.

Four southern West Virginia counties are still sitting out the state's buck gun season because of a low deer population.

The West Virginia Public Service Commission has denied a staff recommendation to dismiss an application for a multistate power line.

Hunters in four southern West Virginia counties will once again have to sit out the state's firearm buck gun season.

Many will be up bright and early Monday for the beginning of riffle season. A day before the start of riffle season and the preparations are in full swing.

West Virginia's Legislature ended its special session Friday with tweaks to the gas tax and state energy policy among the final bills to pass.

West Virginia has a 'horror' flick image that it frankly shares with Texas, the Lone Star State.

Via the comments, the Charleston Gazette documents the ease with which West Virginia police officer Matthew Leavitt was able to continue to find work in law enforcement despite a long trail of misconduct.

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.