News Staff Nurses and nurse practitioners with Cabell Huntington Hospital overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract agreement with hospital executives Friday. The contract is expected to provide job security and boost care, wages and benefits. The contract agreement affects nearly 1,000 registered nurses at Cabell Huntington Hospital.
A vaccine clinic was held Saturday at the Charleston Coliseum Convention Center for people 70 years or older. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department partnered with CAMC to help administer 1,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that day alone. They also partnered with West Virginia Health Right to administer vaccines through a new drive-through system. The Kanawha-Charleston … Read more
Governor Justice is expanding the age eligibility for the vaccine to people 65 and older. West Virginia has administered nearly 125-thousand doses of the vaccine, and nearly 23-thousand people are fully vaccinated, meaning they have received a second dose.
Local health departments across the state have hundreds of people on waiting lists who want to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, but there are reports that the federal government doesn’t have a vaccine reserve. Governor Justice says the state was scheduled to receive sixty-thousand doses next week, which would be an additional 25-thousand doses, but now … Read more
State Treasurer John Perdue is out after 24-years in office. Purdue says he’s proud of his time as the state’s treasurer. He modernized the office, returned a fortune in unclaimed property to its rightful owners and developed a three-billion-dollar education fund. Republican Riley Moore defeated Perdue in the November election.
Charleston City Council is drafting an amendment to its needle exchange ordinance. The move comes is response to the Charleston Police Department’s announcement that the grassroots harm reduction group “SOAR” will not face any criminal charges after an investigation into its needle exchange program. Both city and county attorney’s determined the law was ineffective. The … Read more
Almost five-hundred West Virginia Nation Guard troops will be in Washington D.C. next week to assists with security during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The troops will support local law enforcement efforts. The 59th Presidential inauguration takes place on Wednesday.
Vice-President Mike Pence was in Charleston for a memorial service in honor of Brigadier General Chuck Yeager. Pence praised him for becoming the first pilot to break the speed of sound and a pioneer in American aviation. Yeager died last month at the age of 97.
The number of deaths from coal mining accidents remained low in 2020. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says there were twenty-nine deaths in the country, with only five coming during coal mining activity. Two of those five deaths were in West Virginia. It’s the sixth straight year that mining deaths were under thirty.
The West Virginia Public Service Commission entered orders in the Frontier Communications bankruptcy case and quality of service audit. The company is required to upgrade and maintain its systems in West Virginia. Frontier has committed to spend a minimum of two-hundred-million-dollars by the end of 2023, and deploying fiber to at least 150-thousand locations by … Read more