Live On The Levee Lineup Announced
Charleston’s annual free concert series, Live on the Levee, will begin on May 24 and run through August 10.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWith four days left in this legislative session, tension between the two chambers is rising. Each chamber is waiting for their prospective bills to be passed by the other chamber before the fast-approaching deadline.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSenate Bill 468 requires that public schools show a four minute video on human development to eighth graders and eleventh graders. An amendment to the bill includes language that life begins at conception.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTeachers may have the ability to remove troubled children from elementary school classrooms if Senate Bill 614 becomes law. The bill sparked a lot of debate on the chamber floor. It gives kindergarten through sixth grade teachers the ability to remove children from classes or from school if they are exhibiting certain behavior like threatening teachers or classmates or otherwise creating an unsafe learning environment.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFacing a national shortage of doctors trained to perform autopsies, West Virginia lawmakers are considering a bill that would fund student loan repayments for forensic pathologists in the state.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo days into the 86th West Virginia Legislative session, the Senate introduced another 99 bills Thursday after entering nearly 200 bills Wednesday.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Senate gaveled back in right at 4 p.m. to discuss Senate Bill 424, which includes proposed tax cuts. The Senate suspended its own rules to advance the bill to third reading and complete action on the legislation.
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