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On this West Virginia Morning, West Virginia is set to receive a nearly $200 million federal award for the state’s 2026 Rural Health Transformation Fund. It’s designed to transform rural health care, but against the backdrop of staggering cuts to Medicaid. There are significant questions about what the new program can accomplish – and how rural hospitals in the state may fare in the months and years ahead.
Also, “Bring Them Home” is a new priority for Gov. Patrick Morrisey where he aims to reunite children sent out of state in the foster care system. And, Kentucky Power customers will pay to keep a West Virginia coal plant running past 2028.
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A team of middle school students trying to solve contaminated water problems in their area have made it to the semi-finals of a national competition.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSen. Donna Boley, R-Pleasants, has decided to retire from public service after 41 years in the West Virginia Senate. Her resignation is effective immediately.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWe explore the history of a song that’s become a universal anthem of hope and forgiveness. “Amazing Grace” was first written as a Christian hymn, and its beginnings in America come in the early 1800s. That’s when people traveled to revivals to worship with preachers from various denominations.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe governor and the state attorney general have both issued letters of support for the new WOTUS rule to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. General William H. “Butch” Graham, Jr.
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