CHARLESTON — Tax collections in West Virginia are tacking close to revenue estimates for the first five months of fiscal year 2025 thanks to better collections in November. According to a monthly report released Monday morning by the state Senate Finance Committee, tax collections for the ...
MARIETTA — Local recognition of the global Artists Sunday initiative started last year with two downtown Marietta businesses and expanded to six in 2024. “And next year, the world,” laughed Marietta Makery owner Greta Guimond. Guimond’s business teamed with Clutch Collective and ...
PARKERSBURG — Residents of the Mid-Ohio Valley and beyond had the chance to show their support for area small businesses Saturday. Small Business Saturday was started in 2010 by American Express to celebrate small businesses’ contribution to their communities and give people an ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Christmas came early at the box office this year. “Moana 2” brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, setting records with $221 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That, combined with “Wicked” and “Gladiator ...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada's ambassador to the United States said Sunday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting President-elect Donald Trump and key Cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the U.S. is ...
SAINT-MALO, France (AP) — Had he continued working aboard fuel-powered cargo ships, Yann Jourdan reckons he'd be earning perhaps four times what he now gets as captain of a sailboat that instead uses the wind's clean energy to transport goods across the Atlantic. But the hit to Jourdan's ...