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Education leaders have been sounding the alarm for years now that declining enrollment has fundamentally broken the formula.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe board voted unanimously to direct the state superintendent to advise schools to follow current vaccination guidelines without religious exemptions, and moved to intervene in two more county school districts.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe governor announced Tuesday night that FEMA denied his request for individual disaster aid to residents of Boone, Cabell, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Lincoln, Monroe and Summers counties affected by February's severe flooding.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsStephen Fields of Chauncey was drilling a test hole in a coal seam when the rock came loose from a highwall due to freezing and thawing.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsGov. Patrick Morrisey said late Wednesday that 55-year-old Stephen Fields of Chauncey died of his injuries at the Twilight surface mine.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsResidents of the Kanawha Valley may have noticed smoke in the air. Emily Rice reports that the Division of Forestry is fighting about 82 fires in the state’s southern coalfields.
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