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Alumni and supporters gathered Saturday afternoon in Elkview to celebrate the new Herbert Hoover High School. It was a day for reflecting on the past and sharing hope for the future. There was a ribbon-cutting on Hoover’s new football field, speeches from Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and a scrimmage between the Huskies and John Marshall. The festivities were capped by a concert from West Virginia native — and John Marshall grad — Brad Paisley. It was a day that... Read More

ELKVIEW, WV (WOWK) – It’s a day of celebration after Herbert Hoover High School Students finally walked in the doors to their brand new school Friday morning. The new school was long-awaited after the devastating floods that hit parts of the Mountain State in June 2016 that affected thousands of lives and destroyed communities throughout West Virginia wiped out the former Herbert Hoover High School building. Since then, the Huskies have been persevering through, while holding their classes in... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced on August 15, 2023, funding from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Energy (DOE), as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Park Service (NPS), to support health care workforce expansion programs, addiction treatment resources, pollution prevention programs, academic... Read More

As kids begin to go back to school, Senate Republicans are handing the Democrats' signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) its first report card. Ahead of Wednesday's White House celebration of the IRA's first anniversary, Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee gave the law a failing grade. Senate EPW Committee ranking member Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., told Fox News Digital that as "Democrats celebrate the one-year anniversary of their partisan climate... Read More

PRINCETON — Deputies’s cruisers get hundreds of thousands of miles on their odometers, but new purchasers are giving local members of law enforcement new vehicles making their duties easier, safer, and ultimately less expensive for the county. The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department received five new Dodge Durangos this week, and could have six new Ford Explorers in its cruiser fleet, too, by next week, said Chief Deputy A.P. Christian. These cruisers will be fully equipped as... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an emergency planning rule for small, advanced nuclear reactors — a step stakeholders say was needed to foster the development of this emerging form of energy generation. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, testified during a public meeting of the NRC regarding the proposed rule. “The United States can and should lead a nuclear... Read More

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently ruled that imports of hardwood plywood products completed in Vietnam, but mainly produced in China, violated federal antidumping laws.    Keith Christman, national president of the Coalition for Fair Trade of Hardwood Plywood said the ruling follows a history of unfair trade with the Asian nations. “We saw movement of that production from China to Vietnam with only minor modifications,” Christman said. “We saw a... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has announced new mobile office dates and locations throughout West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands during the months of August and September. Members of Sen.; Capito’s staff will be available to provide constituents one-on-one assistance with casework and other issues they may be experiencing with federal agencies. Appointments are not required but are encouraged, and they can be made... Read More

Recorder ensemble seeks participantsSHEPHERDSTOWN — Bring your nice wooden heirlooms or dust off your plastic Yamaha and join the Shepherd Community Recorder Ensemble under the direction of Andrea Diggs, adjunct music professor. Youth and adults who can read music and know basic recorder fingerings will learn a wide variety of music and prepare for a concert at the end of each semester. Rehearsals will take place Mondays — Aug. 21-Nov. 27 — from 6-7:20 p.m., with a concert on Dec. 5, at 7:30... Read More

PRINCETON — A local mental health center is among the entities receiving grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support programs dealing with opioid addiction and babies facing withdrawal from opioids and other substances they were exposed to before birth. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), announced funding Monday from... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — Five Rural Communities Opioid Response programs are receiving new support to help fight Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in West Virginia. “NAS is a group of conditions that can occur when newborns withdraw from certain substances, including opioids, that they were exposed to before birth,” according to a release from the office of Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).  The programs receiving funding, courtesy of the U.S. Department of... Read More

PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center in Princeton is receiving a $500,000 grant to address the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) problem. NAS is a group of conditions that can occur when newborns withdraw from certain substances, including opioids, that they were exposed to before birth. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.VA., made the announcement this morning. Capito said the funding is from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services is aimed at... Read More

CHARLESTON, WV (LOOTPRESS) — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), today announced funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support five Rural Communities Opioid Response programs focused on addressing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) across West Virginia. The purpose of this program is to reduce the incidence and... Read More

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency bureaucrats simply can’t help themselves, it seems. Once again this spring, they proposed power plant regulations that would force the closure of some coal and gas-fired power plants, despite the U.S. Supreme Court having already told the agency it can’t do that. “In direct conflict with West Virginia v. EPA, this proposal requires generation shifting from fossil-fuel power to other types of energy. While the Agency falsely claims this does... Read More

ELKINS, W.Va (WDTV) - The city of Elkins is getting $950,000 as part of a Congressionally Directed Spending award. The money was announced last night by Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and will support local law enforcement offices and courthouses. According to a press release, Elkins will specifically use the money for “technology upgrades”. Senator Capito requested $4 million to be distributed to communities throughout the state. Read More

West Virginia is receiving a $5.8 million federal funding award to help qualifying long-term care patients transition back to their own homes and apartments. The federal funding award will support West Virginia’s “Take Me Home” transition program, which aims to let residents of long-term care facilities decide the best setting for their care, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday. Capito, ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor,... Read More

Charleston, W.Va. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced Thursday nine congressionally directed spending (CDS) awards from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to help communities and entities across West Virginia support local law enforcement offices and courthouses. Specifically, the funding will support security and training projects, new equipment, and the addition of staff. These awards were secured through CDS requests made by Senator Capito. The funding... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Long-term-care patients in West Virginia who wish to return home are getting help thanks to more than $5,000,000 being provided to the state by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The "Take Me Home" program, which borrows the John Denver song "Take Me Home, Country Roads," seeks to identify qualifying residents of long-term care facilities who wish to return to their own homes and communities and provide them with the support and services they... Read More

Mercer and McDowell counties will receive federal funding to allow for the purchase of new police cruisers. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced the congressional directed spending requests Wednesday for the Mercer County Commission and the McDowell County Commission. The funding awards include: • $123,000 in funding for the McDowell County Commission in Welch for the acquisition of patrol vehicles. This request was made by... Read More

West Virginia’s Take Me Home Medicaid Transition Program will receive nearly $6 million in funding from the federal government. The program looks for residents of long-term care facilities who wish to return to their own homes and apartments and provides them with the support and services they need to move home, and back into their communities. The program is supported by West Virginia’s Money Follows the Person, or MFP grant, through the West Virginia Department of Health... Read More