New West Virginia Fire Marshal Tony Carrico has said he wants to reduce the terrible toll fires take in West Virginia. That will be difficult; the risk of dying in a fire here is about 3.3 times the national average, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a $700,000 grant to West Virginia to develop a protocol for assessing impacts to wetlands.
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The Harrison County Schools superintendent wants to implement a truancy diversion program and provide more resources to improve attendance rates.
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Alpha Natural Resources, the world's third largest supplier of metallurgical coal, said September 26th that it would be shuttering three mines in West Virginia due to sustained weak market conditions and government regulations challenging the Central Appalachian mining industry.
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A patient at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case of the disease to be diagnosed in the United States, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
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U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, is absolutely correct in questioning the competence - and honesty - of the agency charged with protecting our nation's leaders.
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Federal EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says most of the conversation surrounding the proposed Clean Power Plan has been positive although the critics seem to be making a lot of noise.
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West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee is never one to mince words, and Thursday night in Wheeling he asserted that the greatest generation "is the one we are raising right now."
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