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Cancer affects thousand of West Virginians every year, and now a mobile screening unit is getting a financial boost.

The selection of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as the Democratic vice presidential nominee is the latest sign that a quiet, slow-moving "changing of the guard" is underway among Senate Democrats.

The reason U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., isn't at the Democratic National Convention this week is because of his duties at the Senate, according to his office.

The majority of today's problems in the USA rest not with our president, but with Congress.

The Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tells MetroNews that group is involved in this year's race for the Second Congressional District in West Virginia.

Media members line up for credentials on the day before the DNC kicks off. Media members wait for credentials.

The members of the West Virginia delegation to the Democratic National Convention continue to arrive in Denver, where they will take part in the nomination of Barack Obama as their party's candidate for ...

Ken Whitehouse on the brewing battle between Rep. Gary Odom and Jimmy Naifeh for the Speaker's chair: While it is well known that the quickest way for a politician to lose a general election is to be perceived ...

Wetzel County Hospital is planning a $1.7 million expansion of its emergency department to meet an increased demand for services.

The new West Virginia University Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Center was officially named and dedicated today, with a keynote address from U.S. Sen.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Anne Barth will need $1 million in the bank to challenge Second District Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito in the November General Election.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd stayed an hour past the scheduled end of a book-signing here for his new book, making sure that more than 220 people standing in line Wednesday got either his autograph or a bookplate ...

Congressional Republicans are poised to shut down the government if they are not allowed a vote on new oil drilling legislation.

The nation's longest-serving U.S. senator tells candidates John McCain and Barack Obama that to be the great president America needs they need to be what George W. Bush was not.

A year makes a lot of difference when it comes to the value of land in West Virginia's New River Gorge.

Branchburg's school superintendent admits an error in judgment for not crediting sources in letters that he sent to parents.

Citizens Against Government Waste today released its preliminary analysis of the Senate version of the Fiscal 2009 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act.

U.S. senators are great glad-handers, not just with their constituents but with each other.

An $800 million investment by mining giant CONSOL could position the Mountain State as a global leader in modern coal technology.

Coal Association marked a significant reunion in the Bush Presidency. coal and timber developer Buck Harless, who introduced Bush at the event, is one of the people most responsible for Bush getting elected in ...