Lincoln Walks At Midnight

The Legislature released this photo from one of the week's ceremonial bill signings by Gov. Joe Manchin (at desk). But that's app...

Forty-two months and 2,489 posts later, I am migrating completely to Twitter. I encourage all to continue following me there for a just-the...

Despite revenues falling short of estimates for the fiscal year, West Virginia expects to collect more in general revenue taxes that it will...

U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, and Nick Rahall, D-3rd, helped pass the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 . Rep. She...

The Associated Press looks at the daunting task facing the state agency assigned to help West Virginia carry out the relevant provisions of...

The emergency mine inspections ordered by Gov. Joe Manchin in the wake of April's Upper Big Branch disaster yielded 128 citations for a...

Gov. Joe Manchin soon hopes to launch Country Roads, a federal political action committee that "would operate under federal rules and r...

President Obama has nominated a Wheeling lawyer, William J. Ihlenfeld, for U.S. Attorney for West Virginia's northern federal court dist...

U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, voted for a measure that The Associated Press explains would "repeal the 1993 law that allows gay peop...

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball is the latest of the national political handicappers to recast or keep West Virginia's 1st Congressiona...

"That was perhaps too much information." -- U.S. House Natural Resources Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., after Obama Interior Secr...

With The Associated Press reporting on the apparent forced resignation of S. Elizabeth Birnbaum as director of the U.S. Minerals Manageme...

President Obama has won his pick for top prosecutor for West Virginia's southern federal court district, The Associated Press reports. ...

As West Virginia wrestles to craft improvements to its public schools, new research puts a price tag on the drain to metropolitan area econ...