Govern Justice is sending in the National Guard to help in the City of Gary after a water system failure. The main pump serving the city water system stopped working last week, leaving about five-hundred customers without water. A new pump has been ordered.
A special election is coming up for voters in Cabell County to decide on a nearly $88-million bond to fund new schools and renovation projects. A new Milton Elementary School would be part of it, and a potential location would be the site of the old Milton High School. The Corps of Engineers is expected … Read more
A group of West Virginia attorneys are asking a judge to force the state to release the names of babies born exposed to drugs as part of the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case. The lawyers want the names so they can send families a notice of pending litigation and seek compensation for them. The Herald-Dispatch reports … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice announced aid for the state’s fairs and festivals this week. The governor said he wants to help the state’s 392 fairs and festivals because he considers them a backbone of West Virginia’s counties. COVID-19 has caused the widespread cancellation of events at the local level, and also the West Virginia State Fair, … Read more
If you receive a call from someone who claims to be employed by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources offering free grant money, be on the alert. The DHHR said it has been notified of the scam calls being made to residents who live in the central counties of the state. Anyone … Read more
West Virginia University pushed back the start of its fall semester by a week and is switching some courses to online instruction. President Gordon Gee said the move is aimed at reducing the overall amount of people on campus while preserving the on-campus experience as much as possible. WVU had a fall 2019 enrollment of … Read more
WVU is planning a phased return to campus this fall, starting with freshmen and graduate students. The majority of upper-division undergraduate courses will be online or hybrid delivery. Officials say a full return to campus would place the campus and the community at greater risk of spreading the virus.
A Dozen of City of Charleston employees have tested positive for COVID-19, including five in the fire department and three in the police department. The West Virginia National Guard is cleaning twelve city facilities.
There are more than ninety new cases of COVID-19 statewide. Active cases declined to just over 16-hundred, and 85 people are hospitalized with the virus. Three more people have died, raising the death toll to 106.
Govern Justice says he’s keeping an eye on COVID-19 numbers in Kanawha County, which has some of the highest numbers in the state. Justice says health officials have the situation under control, and say it’s not from bars, but community spread.