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Visitor spending at the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in southern West Virginia has been a boon for the local economy. The National Park Service’s 2022 report showed that the park contributed $96.1 million to the economy and created 1,044 jobs. In the same year, more than 1.5 million people visited the park, injecting an estimated $79.3 million into nearby areas. Interestingly, a vast majority (88.1%) of these visitors were from outside the state. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito... Read More

OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – Things are about to get very busy at WesBanco Arena and if you are planning on attending any upcoming events, we have some good news. The Arena will soon receive more than $600,000 in safety upgrades. That’s thanks to Senator Shelley Moore Capito who secured a Congressional Spending Award. The money will be used for new doors on the exterior of the building. They will have a keyless entry which allow them to be used as emergency exits. There will also be a state of... Read More

Charleston, W.Va. – In a recent report, the U.S. National Park Service’s (NPS) 2022 National Park Visitor Spending Effects report found that the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve generated $96.1 million in economic output and supported 1,044 jobs in West Virginia over the past year. In 2022, over 1.5 million park visitors spent an estimated $79.3 million in local gateway regions while visiting the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, with 88.1 percent of visitors from... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The National Park Service’s 2022 report on visitor spending has found that the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in southern West Virginia generated $96.1 million in economic output and supported 1,044 jobs. More than 1.5 million park visitors spent an estimated $79.3 million in local gateway regions in 2022 while visiting the Nepark and preserve, with 88.1% of visitors from out-of-state. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito celebrated the news and stressed that West... Read More

WASHINGTON (WV News) — The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report requested by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.. with recommendations to prepare for the implementation of advanced nuclear reactors. Capito, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asked the GAO in February 2022 for an assessment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s preparedness to review... Read More

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Employees of Mountain Health Network, Marshall Health, and the Marshall University Joan C Edwards School of Medicine now have access to childcare services through a new partnership with Ridge Kids Academy. Two centers located near the Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. May’s Medical Center main campuses were made possible through federal funding secured by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Sen. Joe Manchin, Rep. Carol Miller, and the West Virginia State Legislature’s support... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va.– U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), announced a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) award from the Small Business Association (SBA) to the Ohio Valley Industrial & Business Development Corp. This award of $675,000 was secured through a CDS request made solely by Senator Capito to support safety and security measures at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. “When I visited Wheeling in 2021, I learned about the ideas and needs for the arena that would enhance and... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced funding from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA), as well as the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support a program to help curb maternal mortality victims and help fund a variety of research programs at West Virginia University (WVU).  HHS FUNDING: Senator Capito, Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations... Read More

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) — 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, today announced funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Marshall University, Cabell-Huntington Coalition for the Homeless, and Seneca Health Services, Inc. to help address homelessness, suicide prevention, mental health, and addiction in West Virginia. “Our nation’s... Read More

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