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The Chick-fil-A inside Charleston Town Center will permanently close on New Year's Eve, ending a 34-year run, with no plans to relocate.
Alliance Resource Partners says a new multiyear coal supply deal will restart the idled Mountain View Mine near Davis and bring nearly 150 miners back to work, with two shifts a day targeted by early 2027.
Nucor's new Mason County sheet steel mill has made its first steel and is on track to ramp up production in early 2027.
Majestic Care is investing at least $50 million in three new skilled nursing communities in Charleston, Fairmont and Morgantown, with groundbreakings Nov. 3-5 and openings expected in 2028.
Charleston's Yeager Airport has a new charging station for electric vertical takeoff aircraft, built with Marshall's Bill Noe Flight School and BETA Technologies.
West Virginia's One Stop Business Portal now covers about 330 permit types, and starting Jan. 1, 2027, agencies that miss deadlines on completed applications must refund permit fees.
EQT, already West Virginia's second-largest gas producer, has agreed to acquire Range Resources in an all-stock deal expected to close in early 2027, pending shareholder and regulatory approval.
As state regulators hear testimony on the proposed MARL transmission line, landowners raise questions about their property and Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt calls for protecting West Virginia farmland.
The Mountain State's craft beer industry is booming with new breweries driving tourism and economic development.
