Photo caption: Cindy Beane, commissioner for the state Bureau for Medical Services, talks to lawmakers about Medicaid’s projected $114 million shortfall for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023,…
BY: CAITY COYNE – DECEMBER 7, 2023 6:00 AM Millions of dollars will be released to county commissions across the state by the end of this year as part of their share of…
Photo caption: West Virginia is among a small number of states that have not applied for BRIC grants set aside for climate-related infrastructure projects. This car was washed into Witcher Creek…
Photo caption: A state audit found that the West Virginia Department of Education lacked “adequate capacity” to monitor how local school districts used federal COVID-19 relief funds. (Lexi Browning | West…
Photo caption: Stakeholders and members of the West Virginia First Foundation met for the first time in the Truist building in Charleston, W.Va., on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Caity Coyne…
BY: LORI KERSEY – NOVEMBER 6, 2023 5:57 AM The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources says it is delaying plans to change the way it distributes federal family planning funding…
BY: CAITY COYNE – NOVEMBER 3, 2023 5:12 PM The West Virginia First Foundation — a nonprofit organization started earlier this year to distribute an expected $1 billion in opioid settlement funds — is reportedly…
BY: CAITY COYNE – OCTOBER 6, 2023 6:00 AM Over the next few years West Virginia is set to receive a record $1 billion in opioid settlement funds that are meant to help quell the…
BY: KELLI CASEMAN & DIANA DAVIDSON – SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 5:57 AM The tobacco industry has a playbook, script and strategy that continues to effectively work in West Virginia. Twenty-five years…
