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Another energy giant to hike bills by 15% in September – families face $257 more every year
The U.S. Sun
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August 20, 2025
A PROMINENT utilities company is planning to increase monthly rates for customers next month. Select families could pay as much as $257 more each year as a result of the spike as energy bill averages remain high nationwide. 1 Energy bills could be...
One in Three Businesses Are Planning To Hike Prices By Next Year
Newsweek
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August 18, 2025
Nearly one in three U.S. businesses said they expected to raise the prices they charged within six months, according to a new LendingTree report. This reflects a growing willingness among firms to pass higher input and import costs on to...
Fayette County native celebrated for educational contributions to West Virginia schools
The Herald-Standard - Pennsylvania
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August 17, 2025
Frank Andrews, left, a 1967 graduate of the College of Education, is presented the 2025 Alumni Excellence Award by Jhan Doughty, chair of the Alumni Excellence Committee. Andrews spent over 50 years championing education for marginalized youth...
Health systems partner to collect patient payments
Healthcare Finance News
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August 20, 2025
Patient self-pay is increasing, says Curae Finance, which announced the new partnerships. Curae Finance has partnered with four new health systems on patient pay. The health systems announced by the company are Emory Healthcare in Atlanta; The...
Stratford, No. 16 WVU men’s soccer with high hopes for deep roster in 2025
The Dominion Post - West Virginia
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August 20, 2025
MORGANTOWN — The competition in goal is just one of several key decisions awaiting West Virginia men’s soccer coach Dan Stratford as the Mountaineers prepare to open the 2025 season. Veteran goalkeeper Mac Bonnaire returns after a 13-2-6 record in...
National Guard to carry weapons in D.C. as West Virginia sends troops at Trump’s request
The Independent
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August 16, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
WVU Medicine supports aspiring nurses with unique scholarship program
WTOV9 - Ohio
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WHEELING, W.Va. — WVU Medicine announced the latest recipients of its Aspiring Nurses Program on Wednesday, offering nursing students a unique opportunity to secure future employment and financial support. The program provides up to $25,000...
FDA warns of radioactive contamination of shrimp sold at Walmart in over a dozen states
AS
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August 20, 2025
The US Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) is warning households and businesses that may have purchased shrimp at Walmart that they should throw out the product after finding that it may have been contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioisotope. The...
West Virginia Will Finally Study How to Protect Communities After 2016 Floods
Insurance Journal
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August 15, 2025
Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that the state will work with...
Jobs report shows overall decline in employment, leaves WV Chamber of Commerce concerned
WCHS Network - West Virginia
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August 20, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va — Concerns are growing after a Workforce West Virginia report revealed a decline of more than 7,000 civilian jobs and a total employment decrease of more than 4,000 in the state in the last year. Steve Roberts The West Virginia...
West Virginia’s Emerging Technology Ecosystem
West Virginia Executive
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Leaders across West Virginia have worked for years to build an economy that not only preserves the Mountain State’s heritage but also secures its future. From fostering homegrown tech startups to preparing residents for high-paying digital jobs,...
More Minnesotans Are Searching For Pickleball Courts
KRFO - Minnesota
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August 20, 2025
Pickleball is among the fastest-growing sports in the world, and Minnesota is a the forefront of its latest surge. According to Action Network, there are currently 48.3 million pickleball players in the United States, creating a market worth about...
It’s Time for West Virginia To Get Into the Game
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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West Virginia is more than halfway through the first quarter of its “economic backyard brawl” against its neighboring states — and the score right now sits at 49-0. Gov. Patrick Morrisey, who promised to get West Virginia more competitive with its...
West Virginia Sells Off Healthcare Facilities
WCBC - Maryland
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August 15th, 2025 by WCBC Radio West Virginia has officially gotten out of the long-term care facility business. Governor Patrick Morrisey announced this week that the state’s four long-term care locations, including one in Fairmont, had been sold...
Why Data Center Electricity Use "Scares Me to the Bone"
Strong Towns
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August 20, 2025
Abby Newsham 0:04 This is Abby, and you are listening to upzoned. Abby Newsham 0:18 Hey everyone, thanks for listening to another episode of upzoned, the show where we take a big story from the news each week that touches the strong towns...
'Just a formality': DEP ripped at meeting on planned Mingo County data center sites
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia
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Pictured is a site location map for a planned data center operation near Holden, Mingo County, in TransGas Development Systems LLC's air quality application with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. West Virginia Department of...
Casting a Long Shadow: Former state auditor employee, foundation president may have tested West Virginia's lobbying rules
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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Family Policy Council President Caiden Cowger, center, watches as the West Virginia House of Delegates passes Senate Bill 468, creating the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act, during a 2022 floor session. (Photo courtesy...
Burns-Keeler fails retirement, returns to alma mater as CFO of foundation
The Pocahontas Times - West Virginia
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August 20, 2025
Anne Burns-Keeler Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer Agriculture is an important industry in Pocahontas County and for a lot of kids who grow up here, it becomes a career choice as they look to the future. It was the path Anne Burns-Keeler took after...
SNAP Stretch program expanding throughout West Virginia
MetroNews - West Virginia
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August 15, 2025
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A Huntington market is the latest establishment in the Mountain State to launch SNAP Stretch. SNAP Stretch is a nutrition incentive program that aims to improve the health outcomes in West Virginia. With SNAP Stretch, citizens...
Interested parties offer alternatives to Hope Gas rate hike proposal
The Dominion Post - West Virginia
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August 20, 2025
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Parties involved in one of two Hope Gas rate hike cases this week offered alternative proposals ranging from a reduced hike to no hike at all. The case they’re commenting on is Hope’s annual Pipeline and...