After a roller-coaster day, the West Virginia Senate ended Monday essentially where it began as its quest to establish member districts for the next decade continued.
The first week of a special legislative session called to address congressional and legislative redistricting ended Friday with the House of Delegates adjourning until further notice and the Senate continuing to spin its wheels.
A bill requiring West Virginia businesses to allow for exemptions when mandating that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 passed the House of Delegates on Friday after two hours of debate.
A bill to define terms in state code that further weakens the autonomy of local health departments was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Wednesday and will be taken up for a second reading by the House on Friday.
Legislators completed work Thursday on a new West Virginia congressional map, reducing the current three congressional districts to two. However, the special session of the Legislature will continue into at least its fifth day, as the Senate again postponed action on its redistricting map af…
Before the West Virginia House of Delegates adopted a House district map Wednesday, two delegates announced they wouldn't seek reelection and others accused each other of racism and gerrymandering.
Relative to the day before it, Tuesday was a slow day for the redistricting process in the West Virginia Legislature.
With less than a year before the West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals is set to begin operation, the Legislature is in the process of tweaking at least one part of the appeals process.
The West Virginia Legislature on Monday made quick work of advancing proposed redistricting maps during the first day of a special session.
West Virginia’s higher education chancellor said she plans to provide college funding formulas to state lawmakers in time for January’s regular legislative session.
Population equality and compactness are two key constitutional requirements for any congressional district map the West Virginia Legislature adopts this redistricting cycle.
Four people get to decide which charter schools can open in West Virginia. The quartet is also tasked with helping to hold these schools accountable.
With a fresh set of legislative lines drawn over West Virginia, a fresh set of races between incumbent members of the House of Delegates is taking shape.
The leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates redistricting efforts said he expects a proposed House district map to remain intact, with a few tweaks after hearing a weekend’s worth of feedback.
Mountain State Republicans face dramatically different challenges since they last held the majority in a redistricting cycle exactly a century ago.
West Virginians got their first glimpse at proposed legislative and congressional districts Thursday when lawmakers responsible for drawing the maps met at the state Capitol.
More people are currently incarcerated in West Virginia’s regional jails than there were in 2020, when the Legislature passed a bail reform law meant to decrease the state’s jail population.
People at a hearing about West Virginia’s legislative redistricting process told lawmakers Thursday they are most concerned about transparency and ensuring the House of Delegates has 100 single-member districts.
County clerks and commissioners are anxiously waiting for the state Legislature’s redrawing of district lines with the COVID-19 pandemic factoring into an always contentious process.
State and county education and athletic officials in West Virginia say they can’t be held liable for an anti-transgender law they didn’t ask for and largely won’t be responsible for enforcing, according to court documents filed last week.
West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair has asked a federal judge to delay the trial involving eight former physicians and administrators in an alleged “pill mill” scheme so a longtime Senate attorney may be present at the 2022 legislative session.
With a few days left to spare, the West Virginia Legislature on Thursday voted to keep a temporary flat rate for the cost of incarcerating people in the state’s regional jail system.
Following the passage of a bill that checked the powers of county boards of health this past session, the West Virginia Legislature is studying other ways the state’s public health system should operate.
CHARLESTON — A split into two more niche bureaus is among changes being made to the West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Resources to improve the child welfare system in the state.
