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CHARLESTON — With the departure of the former chair to serve within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, vice chair Del. Matt Rohrbach, R-Cabell, has been named chair of the state House of Delegates Health and Human Resources Committee. Del. Dean Jeffries, R-Kanawha, has been named majority vice chair, according to a release from House Speaker Roger Hanshaw on Tuesday. “I’m confident this leadership team will bring a deliberate approach to the important wor...

Today Mostly cloudy in the morning, then thunderstorms developing later in the day. High 79F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70%.. Tonight Thunderstorms during the evening, then partly cloudy overnight. Low 56F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70%. Updated: April 8, 2021 @ 1:48 am

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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Legislature is in the final stretch as Wednesday marked crossover day. It was the final day for legislation, with the exception of budget bills, to be passed out of the respective bodies. Both bodies started early, working into the afternoon to get bills to the other side before the end of the day. Bills that didn’t make it through the full process will have to wait another year for consideration. According to the Legislature’s website, the House of...

CHARLESTON — A tie vote in the West Virginia House of Delegates’ Health and Human Resources Committee on Thursday killed a bill that would have made private schools exempt from

BECKLEY, W.Va. (WVVA) Lawmakers in Raleigh County say a new veterans nursing home is all but assured for Beckley. Funding for the 120-bed facility was included in Gov. Jim Justices 2021 budget, raising the chances that the project will be funded when the legislature passes the budget. Raleigh County lawmakers already have a stretch of land approved behind Jackie Withrow Hospital for the project. When the state approves the 15 million included for the project, West Virginia will receive anothe...

11:33 We’ve heard it before: the U.S. power grid is vulnerable to cyberattacks. Could what happened with the recent SolarWinds hack happen to our power grid system? Idaho Matters spoke with the Jake Gentle from the Idaho National Laboratory and Jeff Pack from Power Engineers. INL is working with the company to develop technology that will reduce the chances of a hack on our power grid.  

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/ 18-year-old Geard Mitchell is one of the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the state of W.Va. He and others say the state of West Virginia’s foster care system is broken. They’re urging the state to make changes to its foster care system, including providing more CPS workers, and reducing the amount of foster care kids who are placed in institutionalized settings. About 400,000 children across the U.S. are growing up inside the foster care system, overseen by government employees ...