ELKINS — Mountain State Forest Festival officials celebrated the successful completion of the 87th Festival during a closing ceremony under sunny skies Sunday afternoon at the Jennings Randolph Federal Center in Elkins. 2025 MSFF Director General Linda A. Shaffer told her Assistant ...

As a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, one of my primary responsibilities is ensuring that our government is responsibly funded so it remains open and working for the people we represent, including the hardworking West Virginians. That’s why I’m deeply disappointed to ...

ELKINS — Gov. Patrick Morrisey praised the deal between the National Parks Service and the state of West Virginia that will keep parks open for the next two weeks during the federal government shutdown, before walking through the 87th Mountain State Forest Festival Grand Feature Parade on ...

ELKINS — A Randolph County woman is behind bars after drugs were allegedly found on her person during a traffic stop. Michelle Lea Hawkins, 28, of Elkins, is charged with possession with intent — methamphetamine, and false evidences, forgery of title and registration, both felonies. ...

CHARLESTON — As members of the West Virginia Legislature consider impacts to the next general revenue budget from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, a state official laid out how that bill will affect Medicaid programs. Cynthia Beane, commissioner of the Bureau for Medical ...

CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey and West Virginia law enforcement officials on Thursday announced additional operations with federal immigration authorities, as well as a separate action that netted a large amount of narcotics. In a press conference Thursday morning in the Governor’s ...