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The Harrison County Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a ribbon cutting event for the area’s newest business recently. On Friday, October 16, the ribbon was cut on The Beauty Room LLC. The business, according to the Chamber, is ready to help you look and feel your beautiful best. It...
During my years in local government, I participated in countless conversations about economic development. We talked about attracting companies, creating jobs, filling vacant buildings and giving people reasons to invest in our community. Those are worthwhile conversations. But sometimes, while looking down the highway for the next opportunity, we overlook...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WDTV) — Hearings on the proposed MidAtlantic Resiliency Link transmission line have ended, leaving West Virginia regulators to consider testimony about the project’s need, costs and effects on landowners. The proposed 107.5-mile, 500-kilovolt line, known as MARL, would run from Pennsylvania toward Virginia. NextEra Energy Transmission...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Public Service Commission (PSC) is expected to make a final ruling on the Mid Atlantic Resilciency Link (MARL) project this spring. The PSC commissioners will have additional briefs from many of the more than 190 interveners to add to testimony received during evidentiary hearings that wrapped up about one week ago.
Morgantown homes lingered on the market even as prices rose, giving buyers a rare edge despite tight inventory.
When West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources alum Levi Watson finished graduate school, opening a market in Cheat Lake wasn’t part of his plan. However, today, the Morgantown native is a co-founder and manager at Pleasant Hill Farm and Produce, a community market and farm...
Bridgeport City Council will be asked to approve a pair of rezoning requests at tonight’s meeting one of which could pave the way for the next business to arrive in the municipality. It is part of the regular agenda at the 7 p.m., November 9 meeting at the Bridgeport...
BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) – 59News brought you the news of pharmaceutical giant ‘CVS’ splitting into two arms in 2028. Now, we’re looking at why they may have made this change. The whole goal behind the move is to improve focus, respond to regulatory pressure and unlock value by separating its insurance and PBM operation from […]
The first of five local property tax cutoffs for older homeowners lands Dec. 1, when West Virginia’s window for a $20,000 homestead exemption closes. Michigan’s Ann Arbor follows with a Dec. 14 poverty-exemption deadline, then New York’s Town of Conklin and Florida’s Pinellas County on March 1 and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on March 15. Each... The post Senior homeowners in West Virginia, Michigan, New York, Florida and Rhode Island face property tax exemption deadlines running from Dec. 1, 2026 to March 15, 2027 appeared first on The Financial Wire .
Homeowners 65 and older can have a slice of their home’s value taken out of the property tax calculation, and the size of that slice depends heavily on the state. Texas school districts must give an extra $60,000 homestead exemption, West Virginia exempts the first $20,000 of assessed value, North Dakota reduces taxable valuation by […]
CHARLESTON - Gov. Patrick Morrisey launched Tuesday a new multimillion-dollar investment by West Virginia in industrial site readiness to boost West Virginia's economic growth and business competitiveness. In a press conference Tuesday afternoon in the Governor's Reception Room, Morrisey announced $40 million in funding through the state Economic Development Authority...
Two state lawmakers are raising questions after the state auditor appears to have stepped in to fix a deed issue for a friend. The West Virginia state auditor is the state’s bookkeeper and responsible for rooting out fraud, waste and graft within both state and local governments. And in recent years, the auditor has been placed in charge of handling the sale of properties with delinquent taxes.
Thirty Harrison County high school students put their business ideas to the test Friday, competing in a "Shark Tank"-style contest.
Data-center construction is creating more business for construction crews, material suppliers and professional services firms across parts of the Southeast. It is also bringing higher costs that may complicate the benefits of the boom. In a new survey of 376 companies, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that businesses...
Illinois Extension's Richard Hentschel says carrots under 6 to 8 inches of straw or leaves can be harvested into December or January. Other extension offices agree.
OAK HILL, W.Va. — A lawsuit has been filed against the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety in an effort to have a standard set on the amount of silica dust allowed to be produced by Mountain State coal mines. The United Mine Workers of America,...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) – Governor Patrick Morrisey announced that the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council would be assisting the John D. Rockefeller Industrial Park in Wyoming County, allowing manufacturer Oceanetics to more than double its workforce with 25 new full-time jobs. “West Virginia has the skilled workforce and resources to attract manufacturers that are […] The post Governor Morrisey Announces Final Steps to Allow Wyoming County Manufacturing Expansion appeared first on West Virginia Daily News .
Howard Berkes: It's not just West Virginia. We're talking about West Virginia, Kentucky, and Southwestern Virginia as the central Appalachian states that are really the epicenter. of the current epidemic of severe black lung disease and the newly reported extraordinarily high rates of simple black lung disease. This Appalachian region has a long history with black lung disease going back more than a century. And in the coal fields of West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia, it's quite common to run into people who not only have generations in coal mining, but also generations of relatives with black lung disease. So, it's long been associated with coal mining in these states.
WEST VIRGINIA (WVNS) – The clock has begun ticking for representatives with Black Diamond Power Company to decide what their next steps will be. The West Virginia Public Service Commission accepted a schedule for the planned purchase of the company by Appalachian Power. New documents from the PSC have laid out a timeline for the […]
