……A free press is even more important today then it was under previous Presidential administrations. And, nobody knows that more than the journalists covering the news in what is proving to be an increasingly volatile climate. In a blatant generalization Trump stated last week that…
Chester City Council, Mayor Ed Wedgeworth and City Clerk Tara Ayers can congratulate themselves on a “job well done” as they conclude the last of the dilapidated houses being torn down in the City. Wedgewood reported to Chester City Council at the Monday October 13th…
Hancock County has received $1.6 million in Opioid Prevention Funding. The money was received after the County joined in a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies who had targeted West Virginia as market to distribute opioids while not making physicians and pharmacists fully aware of their…
The City of New Cumberland will the Hancock County Commissioners and Board of Education in negotiating a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement with Current Hydro, LLC. Council passed the first reading of Ordinance 25-006 at Monday’s meeting and will meet again Oct. 20th…
Both Fiesta Tableware Company and Tomlinson Public Service District have reached an agreement on rate through mediation. An evidentiary hearing slated for Sept. 30 in Charleston to determine the appropriate rate has been cancelled. Both Fiesta and Tomlinson have agreed to terms set forth in…
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general in launching an investigation into major tech companies regarding their misleading and deceptive claims they are solely powered by renewable energy. In a letter sent this week to Microsoft, Meta,…
In anticipation of the hydroelectric plant coming to New Cumberland, the Hancock County Commission and the Board of Education have signed off on a lease agreement for land Current Hydro will have a 40 -year lease on and for the Pilot Agreement (Payment in Lieu…
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is co-leading with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman a coalition of 26 states in a comment letter to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting the agency’s proposed reversal of its 2009 Endangerment Finding under…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – State Treasurer Larry Pack today announced expanded benefits to the SMART529 program following the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act are now available to view on the SMART529.com website. The bill was signed into law on July 4, 2025, introducing…