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CHARLESTON — West Virginia turned 159 years old on Monday and many citizens turned out at the state Capitol Complex to celebrate.

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CHARLESTON — More than half a billion dollars in federal funding will be sent to 4 U.S. states to expand broadband access as part of a sweeping national effort to bring affordable service to rural and low-income Americans, the U.S. Treasury Department announced. 

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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture has issued a consumer protection warning regarding illegal hemp products being sold in West Virginia retail stores. 

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MORGANTOWN — State health officials are looking at private-public partnerships to help expand child care services across West Virginia.

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CHARLESTON — West Virginia voters did nothing to dramatically alter the makeup of the state Legislature last week in primary election contests that seemed certain to leave Republican supermajorities in both chambers intact.

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CHARLESTON (AP) — Candidates in West Virginia’s May 10 primary are hoping for the chance to earn their party’s nominations for the U.S. House or the state Legislature. The overall ballot in the midterm election may be smaller, but the voting landscape changed after the state’s once-a-decade …

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CHARLESTON — The influx of prescription opioids into West Virginia communities was the main driver of the state’s drug crisis _ more than poverty, job loss and other economic stressors, an epidemiologist testified Tuesday at the ongoing trial against three major pharmaceutical companies.

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GRANT TOWN — Grassroots groups blocking the entrance to a West Virginia power plant denounced Sen. Joe Manchin’s ties to the coal industry, and several arrests were made.

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CHARLESTON — A nonprofit arm of West Virginia University took ownership of a shuttered pharmaceutical plant last week with the goal of improving area job and education opportunities.

CHARLESTON — A West Virginia circuit court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the owner of a luxury limousine business alleging he was essentially barred from attending a House of Delegates committee meeting during the 2021 Legislative session because of COVID-19 restrictions.

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CHARLESTON — The energy startup SPARKZ said last week it plans to build an electric battery factory in West Virginia in 2022 that will employ at least 350 people.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito said what is happening in Ukraine is an atrocity and Vladimir Putin needs to be held accountable for what has happened.

MARTINSBURG — Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Associate Dean of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Steve Weiss smiled as he spoke about the world of hyperrealistic desserts, the videos many enjoy on TikTok, YouTube and Facebook where viewers wonder if an item will be revealed to be edi…

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CHARLESTON — A 3rd round of Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer benefits will go to the families of students who qualify for free or reduced-price school meals.

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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate on Friday advanced a $4.65 billion state budget proposal that includes 5% pay raises for state employees.

MAN — The day before the disaster hit, Perry Harvey went fishing on Buffalo Creek for one reason.

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CHARLESTON — A Maryland woman pleaded guilty Friday to her role in a plot with her husband to sell submarine secrets to a foreign country.

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CHARLESTON — The Republican-led West Virginia Senate moved quickly Friday to rescind the state’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, declaring that it expired in 1979.

More than 600 child abuse charges were filed in West Virginia last year, and 94% of alleged offenders were someone the child knew. 

CHARLESTON — West Virginia lawmakers waded into the teaching of race and identity in schools last week as a measure to ban the teaching that one group is superior to another took the 1st step toward becoming state law.

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HUNTINGTON —Sarah Kelly recalls the fleeting moments when she reached out for help during a decadeslong opioid addiction, only to find out no residential treatment beds were available in an overloaded system in her corner of West Virginia.

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CHARLESTON — A group of Republican lawmakers in West Virginia is trying to pass a law forbidding mask mandates in K-12 schools and restricting districts from requiring COVID-19 testing for people who don’t have symptoms.