BOPARC board backs MUB’s recommended route through White Park

Preston Commissioners are endorsing Arthurdale Heritages bid to become the first National Historic Site in West Virginia.

Preston Commissioners approved the purchase Monday of .

Kingwood Councils enforcement committee is recommending action be started against six properties.

Kingwood Council was pleased to see business license applications this week but wrestled with whether all the owners requests met code.

County offices in Preston passed the first cyber security test with good marks, County Network Specialist William Biff Armstrong reported Monday.

The cause of a fire that destroyed the administration building of a former youth drug treatment center is under investigation.

Water pollution and acid mine drainage were the main topics of discussion at the Tuesday meeting of Newburg Council.

Preston County Commissioners got some good fiscal news this week.

Shortly before Sen. Joe Manchin talked with the press about federal gun-safety legislation, Delegates Barbara Evans Fleischauer and John Doyle issued their own release calling for a West Virginia red flag law.

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has moved to dismiss the federal lawsuit filed against the state by a coalition of domestic violence organizations seeking to have the parking lot gun bill nullified.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.  potholed portion of Jakes Run Road that had caught the attention of Monongalia Countys five delegates in late March and was then patched has since collapsed slid down the hillside.

The House of Delegates assembled Wednesday morning the third day of this weeks resumption of the special session for a 12-plus hour floor session to handle a long list of education and appropriations bills, including 206, the omnibus, which generated nine hours of debate on amendments and the bill itself.

The House Finance Committee spent just overtwo hours hashing over 168, the so-called Equal Opportunity EducationScholarship program, and barely passed it, with two Republican members crossingover.

With red-shirted teachers packing thegalleries, hallways and meeting rooms, the House of Delegates convened Mondaymorning to take up education betterment.

Mayor Dave Johnson said the section of the Holland Wallacross from Paulas on Holland Ave was completed at Mondays city councilmeeting.

The Westover bear, which was seen running through the citys streets, was shot Tuesday, according to Westover Police Chief Richard Panico.