The West Virginia Senate slowed to a crawl on Monday after members voted to keep Raylee’s Law out of the Senate chamber.
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Across West Virginia, teachers and staff are learning their jobs have been cut due to dire school finances. While reduction in force letters are going out, lawmakers haven’t signed off on changing the school funding formula for next year that could give more money to counties. Tracy Moss, 36, was surprised in February to learn […]
Editor's note: This story was updated March 2 with a comment from state Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt.
Just 24 hours removed from signing the Small Business Growth Act into law, Gov. Patrick Morrisey told reporters on Tuesday that it’s too early…
On Friday morning, dozens of homeschooling parents and their children and other “school choice” advocates lined the hallway outside of the House Finance Committee. A helium tank was propped up on a chair so families could blow up balloons. Kids held posters with phrases like, “Don’t take the hope out of Hope Scholarship.” They’d shown […]
A bill meant to increase penalties for human trafficking and smuggling, including the illegal transport of immigrants lacking permanent legal status, is almost headed to Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s desk for his consideration. The Senate overwhelmingly approved House Bill 4433 on Tuesday, a measure that would expand the state’s definitions of human trafficking, smuggling crimes, forced […]
Lawmakers in the state House of Delegates passed a bill Thursday that, as amended, will make having sexual contact with an animal explicitly illegal in West Virginia for the first time if enacted as a law. House Bill 4725 would amend the state’s animal cruelty statutes to clarify what happens to an animal involved in […]
West Virginia delegates have passed a bill that would require that absentee ballots be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted. The House passed House Bill 4600 with a vote of 79 to 17 and three members absent. Under current law, absentee ballots are counted if they are postmarked by […]
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported a funding source for the proposed Higher Education Health and Aid Grant p…
As they've done since 2013, students, faculty and staff turned out in force at the West Virginia Capitol in Charleston Monday for the annual W…
