News Staff The energy startup SPARKZ said it plans to build an electric battery factory in West Virginia in 2022 that will employ at least 350 people. The company will partner with the United Mine Workers of America to recruit and train dislocated miners to be the factory’s first production workers. Batteries produced at the factory will … Read more
Kanawha County commissioners said they will allocate up to $2.25 million to demolish abandoned and dilapidated structures in the county and have identified more than 140 unsafe structures for demolition. Funding for the demolition program would come from the American Rescue Plan, a zero-interest loan from the West Virginia Housing Development Authority’s Property Rescue Initiation … Read more
Nine people have applied for an open West Virginia Supreme Court seat. Gov. Jim Justice’s office says the applicants are C. Haley Bunn; Nicole A. Cofer; Robert J. Frank; Gregory Howard Jr.; Charles O. Lorensen; Kristina D. Raynes; James J. Rowe; Mark A. Sorsaia; and Joanna I. Tabit. Former Justice Evan Jenkins resigned last month … Read more
Your power bill might be going up. Wheeling Power and Appalachian Power are petitioning the Public Service Commission for a price hike. The average customer would pay around a buck-thirty more a month. If approved the rate hike would go into effect in September.
Nine lawyers, circuit judges, and prosecutors are applying to fill a vacant position on the state Supreme Court. The Judicial Vacancy Advisory Commission will interview the applicants and submit name to Governor Justice for his final decision. Justice Evan Jenkins announced he was leaving the court in February.
The Kanawha County Commission is allocating more than two-million-dollars to demolish abandoned buildings throughout the county. The Commission has already identified more than one-hundred-forty unsafe properties for demolition.
Governor Justice says West Virginia reached the second-highest export growth rate in the country. The state’s exports rose to over six-billion-dollars in 2021. That’s almost forty-percent higher than the previous year, and surpassed pre-pandemic export numbers.
House and Senate Democrats are asking Governor Justice to press pause on the state’s gasoline tax. They want Justice to suspend the nearly thirty-six-cents-per-gallon as a gas tax holiday for a month to give drivers a break at the pump. The governor says he can’t legally suspend the tax, and it would mean the state’s … Read more
Former West Virginia state lawmaker Derrick Evans is pleading guilty to one count of civil disorder in connection to the January 6th riots at the U.S. Capitol. Evans faces a maximum of five years in prison and a 250-thousand-dollar fine.
Senator Joe Manchin and several other state and federal are announcing that an electric battery company is planning to open in West Virginia and will employ displaced coal miner, and provide as many as three-thousand jobs in the future. The Sparkz company says it will partner with the United Mine Workers and other groups to … Read more