By Leann Ray | Editor-in-chief
“West Virginians have legitimate concerns about their health, their environment and their right to have a voice in decisions that will fundamentally affect their communities. We just want those concerns to be heard.” — Olivia Miller, interim executive director for the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.
A server room in a data center. (Photo by Getty Images)
Advocacy groups to ask State Supreme court to decide jurisdiction in Tucker gas plant permit appeals
By Caity Coyne
Residents and advocacy groups who are legally challenging the legitimacy of an air quality permit granted last year for the construction of a massive data center and natural gas complex in Tucker County will soon be asking the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to determine once and for all which judicial division should hear the merits of their appeal.
A sign advertises that SNAP benefits are accepted at a Hornbacher’s in north Fargo, North Dakota, on July 7, 2026. (Photo by Ceilidh Kern/For the North Dakota Monitor)
By Lori Kersey
Residents of four flood-affected counties in West Virginia can use their federal food assistance benefits to purchase hot foods now through late September.
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Vegetables and lettuces at a grocery store in Michigan. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many Americans’ fears of contracting a foodborne illness. I
By Anna Claire Vollers
A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many Americans’ fears of contracting a foodborne illness.
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — A federal judge over the weekend allowed the Trump administration to force-feed the man charged with shooting two National Guard members, killing one and injuring another, in the District of Columbia in November.
By Jacob Fischler
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday declined the Trump administration’s request to overturn the temporary restraining order she signed last week that blocks the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out a rule placing new restrictions on mail-in voting.
By Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump does not have to follow a lower court order to stop aboveground construction on his $400 million East Wing ballroom, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 5-4 decision, all but guaranteeing work on the new complex will continue to accelerate.
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