Three seats flipped, adding to the Republicans' stronghold in the State Legislature and further eroding Democrats' influence ...

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(AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed his wife to the state ... Justice insisted Cathy Justice is more than ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The newest-elected Kanawha County Commissioner Natalie Tennant said her Tuesday night victory hasn’t even truly sunk in yet following the confusion caused from a corrupted data ...

When Rosemary Ketchum gets introduced as the first openly transgender person to win elective office in West Virginia ... of transgender officials in the U.S., only a few were elected in similarly ...

Republican Patrick Morrisey, the state’s attorney general, won his election bid for governor of West Virginia. Morrisey defeated Democrat Steve Williams, the current mayor of Huntington. The ...

It also ranks near the bottom for female representation in elected office. West Virginia has never sent ... She's afraid if an official sees her home, where six people live, it'll be condemned.

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

FRANKLIN, W.Va.—Not many places need warm bodies more than this picturesque town in the Appalachian Mountains. There are so ...

Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press. The AP called the race early Wednesday morning after determining that Vice President ...

Meanwhile, the state elected Jim Justice ... and in 2009 the state named coal its official rock. “West Virginia has always relied on coal,” says Tom Southern, who lives near the coal museum ...

Senior Biden administration officials provided ... for hydrogen research. The West Virginia Hydrogen Hub Working Group — made up of state and federal elected leaders — applied to the ...