CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Governor Patrick Morrisey joined Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Wednesday to formalize an amendment to the State-Federal Cooperative Agreement between the mountain state and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
According to a news release, the amendment expands West Virginia’s authority to regulate coal mining and reclamation activities on federal lands within its borders.
It also allows the state to regulate federal lands that contain coal leased by the U.S. Bureau of

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Huntington Police Department has issued a public safety alert after fentanyl-laced tablets were found shaped as cartoon characters.
A release from HPD said there was more than 900-multi-colored tables seized. The pills were molded to resemble an emblem from the Transformers series and were about the size of a child’s vitamin.
Field tests showed that the pills contained fentanyl and MDMA, or ecstasy or molly, which is a highly potent and potentially lethal synthetic opioid.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Two Huntington men were arrested following a joint operation to bring one of the individuals into police custody.
Devon Carey (Photo: WVDCR)
According to a release from the Huntington Police Department, Devon Maurice Carey, 31, and Samuel Lamont Hawkins Jr., 31, were arrested Tuesday by members of the U.S. Marshals Service CUFFED Task Force, Huntington Police, SWAT Team, and Huntington Violent Crime Drug Task Force.
The agencies joined together for the operation in the 1700

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –City of Huntington officials say they detected and responded to a cybersecurity incident Tuesday night.
According to a release, they said their monitoring systems had identified suspicious activity quickly and was able to immediately activate their response protocols.
The release said officials have been in contact with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and are working to investigate, contain, and remediate the situation.
Right now, they said it was

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Board members at West Virginia International Yeager Airport were joined Wednesday by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice to announce $25 million in congressionally directed spending for terminal modernization and passenger improvements.
Dominique Ranieri
Airport Director and CEO Dominique Ranieri said the funding will support the next phase of the project.
“This funding that Senator Capito and Senator Justice were able to bring back to West Virginia for us, is

A Senate committee quickly advanced a bill meant to make sure people aren’t being scammed at bitcoin kiosks.
SB 887 is intended to better regulate the kinds of kiosks often found in convenience stores and gas stations allowing users to buy or sell cryptocurrencies using cash or debit cards is on track to be introduced in the Legislature this week. Those kiosks often have fees ranging from 5% to 15% per transaction.
The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee considered and advanced the bill on

CHARLESTON – Energy demands are growing, and all types of power generation are going to be necessary moving forward.  
That was the response from the Gas and Oil Association of West Virginia to Tuesday’s news conference by the United Mine Workers of America, in which the union claimed that natural gas projects in West Virginia could destabilize communities and cost jobs. 
Rebecca McPhail
“We view all of West Virginia’s energy workers as partners in powering America, but efforts to frame our