West Virginia will receive $21.9 million from the federal government to turn around its lowest-achieving schools.

Concern about prison overcrowding in West Virginia has helped advance legislation that would speed up parole for the state's least-risky nonviolent inmates

For perhaps the first time, a single agency could soon manage the estimated 9,300 vehicles owned or leased by West Virginia state government.

As the Legislature hits the final two days of the regular session, a number of bills still could become law before turning into proverbial pumpkins by the stroke of midnight Saturday.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver hoped to revolutionize West Virginia school lunches, but first lady and state school board member Gayle Manchin says his recommendations aren't completely feasible.

There will be a lot less money available for a pilot public financing project for the 2012 state Supreme Court races, after the state Senate voted Thursday to strip most of the funding sources out of the bill.

Keeping would-be dropouts in school until they're 17 years old could cause more problems than it would solve, members of the Senate Finance Committee concluded Thursday.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection wants details about where oil and gas producers are getting water for wells and how they'll dispose of it.

The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling regarding new natural gas drilling proposed for Chief Logan State Park.

Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.