Joe Manchin News

Governor Joe Manchin has announced that he and his staff will challenge residents of the Kenneth "Honey" Rubenstein Juvenile Center to a basketball game, later this month.

Before long, Gov. Joe Manchin expects to sit down face to face with President Obama in his bid to sell the idea that 23 delayed coal mining permits are vital to the economic health of not only West Virginia but the entire nation.

In an open letter to the governor, columnist Rob Cornelius proposes Joe Manchin run for Congress.

A $1.6 million shortfall in private funding for the J.B. Chambers Performing Arts Center at Wheeling Park High School has the Ohio County Board of Education seeking a loan from the state.

Lagging tax revenues are threatening West Virginia state government with a budget deficit, but Gov.

Chances are strong that West Virginia lawmakers will spend part of this month's interims sessions taking up a plan to resolve a municipal police and fire pension crisis, Gov.

IT'S all about risk. Or is it? Maybe it's about appearances or whether the risk is acceptable or even cool.

As we expected, discussion of setting premiums for public employees' health insurance based in part on whether they are overweight generated a substantial amount of controversy.

Gov. Joe Manchin told business leaders gathered for the West Virginia Business and Industry Council meeting that he believes the state will survive the recession.

Changes made to the state's vehicle fleet management since 2005 will save West Virginia taxpayers millions of dollars, according to information gathered by the state Department of Administration in follow up to a legislative audit concluded earlier this month.

Education reformers are intensifying their push to bring charter schools to West Virginia as parents, teachers and lawmakers ready themselves for another round of legislative battles aimed at improving the state's school system.

For any insurance program to remain viable for long, premiums charged for policies have to be balanced against the risks of coverage.

Massey Energy has begun blasting at its Bee Tree Surface Mine, a Coal River Mountain strip-mine operation environmentalists had promoted as a potential wind-energy production site and a symbol of their campaign against mountaintop removal coal mining.

Gov. Joe Manchin has appointed a committee to study the state's vehicle management.

Keep up the pressure. That may be the only way the Obama administration, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency, and certain members of Congress finally get the message that anti-coal policies simply won't work for West Virginia and much of the nation.

Two local legislators aren't happy that state Democratic Party Chairman Nick Casey has been recommended by U.S. Sens.

The war on drugs doesn't come cheap. But 37 groups from around West Virginia received state funding last week to reach out to the community.

Simonton Windows was forced to lay off more than 200 people after profits fell in January.

Overweight state workers in West Virginia could start paying more for health insurance.

Overweight state workers in West Virginia could start paying more for health insurance.