All the headlines from our West Virginia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2018 // Injury rates have more than doubled at five West Virginia coal mines acquired by Murray Energy Corp. in 2013, according to a Reuters review of federal data, as the firm sharply increased the amount of coal produced per...
Oct 22 2018 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says there will be no change in state funding for the state employees’ public insurance plan next year in a letter to the agency’s director. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports...
Oct 3 2018 // Workers’ compensation rates will soon be less expensive for businesses in West Virginia.According to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Allan McVey, a filing for a 13 percent decrease in voluntary market loss costs...
Oct 2 2018 // West Virginia University says it has banned five fraternities from campus for at least 10 years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi and Theta Chi can no...
Sep 20 2018 // Worried West Virginians got a reprieve when forecasts of potential devastating floods didn’t come to fruition from the remnants of Hurricane Florence.The storm brought 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) of rain in...
Sep 12 2018 // Kentucky and West Virginia are offering discounted rates on lodging at their state parks for people seeking shelter from Hurricane Florence. The Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet said the discounted nightly rate...
Sep 7 2018 // Republican Dean Jeffries has been appointed to the West Virginia House of Delegates seat from Kanawha County vacated by the resignation of Tim Armstead.Gov. Jim Justice announced Jeffries’ appointment Wednesday....
Sep 6 2018 // New West Virginia health information shows drug overdose deaths have increased to more than 1,000 in a one-year period for the first time.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the West Virginia Health Statistics...
Aug 27 2018 // West Virginia’s attorney general says his office has reached a settlement over allegations that a leasing company unlawfully repossessed vehicles.Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a release that the...
Aug 24 2018 // West Virginia Governor Jim Justice’s family coal companies are breaching their environmental responsibilities, according to Kentucky regulators, who are seeking millions in additional fines for surface mining areas...
Aug 14 2018 // A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit in connection with an industrial fire in West Virginia. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reports U.S. District Judge Thomas E. Johnson dismissed most of the claims made in a...
Aug 8 2018 // The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office is eliminating its Division of Employment Programs and Workers’ Compensation Defense, resulting in the loss of 10 jobs. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Aug 1 2018 // Federal officials have announced a $2.2 million proposed settlement with CSX Transportation to resolve the company’s liability for water pollution violations stemming from a train derailment that caused an oil spill...
Jul 25 2018 // West Virginia will receive $690 million in federal funding for flood management and repair projects. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding July 18 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A...
Jul 24 2018 // The place might sound familiar, even if you’ve never been there: the Appalachian foothills, down by the Ohio River, where the sirens scream addiction and death.Twenty-six overdoses in one afternoon. The highest death...
Jul 2 2018 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a Rhode Island woman whose husband died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel is entitled to West Virginia workers’ compensation benefits. The state Workers’ Compensation...
Jun 28 2018 // West Virginia regulators have issued two additional violation notices to the Mountain Valley Pipeline project.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the two additional violation notices to the pipeline project are for water...
Jun 15 2018 // CSX Transportation in West Virginia and the federal government have settled a lawsuit that accused CSX of discriminatory hiring practices for $3.2 million. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the lawsuit accused CSX of...
Jun 14 2018 // The West Virginia Supreme Court says a Rhode Island woman whose husband died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel is entitled to West Virginia workers’ compensation benefits. The state Workers’ Compensation...
Jun 11 2018 // When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter.Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescribed an antibiotic for a suspected ear infection, was at home in Princeton, West...