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Attorney General JB McCuskey said his office is working with two environmental groups to resolve a lawsuit over a sweeping demand for a decade of documents. The resolution would result in his office withdrawing its subpoena of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition and 350.org, McCuskey’s office said in a recent court filing. 

McCuskey consented to extend a temporary r...


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Lucia Valentine knocked on 4,000 doors to hear what Jefferson County residents cared the most about. Many of them shared her concern about data center development in the Eastern Panhandle and their inability to have any say in it.

Across the state, Democrats ran on campaigns to give back local control over data centers. And after over ten years of a growing Republi...


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Though Republicans will keep control of the West Virginia Legislature following Election Day, Democrats were on track early Wednesday to more than double their numbers in the House of Delegates and state Senate. That increase in numbers will give Democrats power to keep Republicans in check.

After midnight, the Associated Press called 16 of the Legislature’s 134 se...


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West Virginia voters in four counties approved local taxes to help fund their schools, according to unofficial election results. Three counties voted down similar initiatives amid conversations about state-level school funding.

Voters in Jackson, Kanawha, Marshall and Mason Counties approved levies to hire support staff and make improvements to their public schools...


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U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin approved a temporary restraining order Thursday to keep two environmental groups from having to hand over a decade’s worth of documents to West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey.

Goodwin said he expects the advocacy groups, West Virginia Rivers Coalition and 350.org, to succeed in having the subpoenas dismissed for violatin...


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