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CHARLESTON - After decades of poor broadband connectivity and a history of squandered opportunities, West Virginia is set to get a flood of federal money to fix the problem.

(Amy Dormuth/Twitter) Even with Saskatchewan abandoning all remaining  public health measures — including mandatory masking indoors — starting Sunday, some businesses across the province could be asking customers to keep masks on for a little while longer. Carmen Milenkovic, the executive director of the Saskatchewan Arts Council, said concerns surrounding the COVID-19 Delta variant and employees’ comfort factored into extending its own mandatory masking policy until at least July 25. �...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. West Virginia’s biggest telecommunications company will get hundreds of millions more in federal money to serve the state, despite being under investigation for its chronic poor service and misuse of funds by the state’s utility regulator. It’s the result of an auction in which the Federal Communications Commission...

The Frontier Communications building sits along the Kanawha River in Charleston This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. West Virginias biggest telecommunications company will get hundreds of millions more in federal money to serve the state, despite being under investigation for its chronic poor service and misuse of funds by the states utility regulator. It’s the result of an auctio...

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