Pop Radio 1035 | radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for June 10, 2026

Good Morning,A massive, multi-million-dollar federal investment is heading to northern West Virginia to revolutionize access to locally grown food. United States Representative Riley Moore has successfully secured nearly six-million-dollars in federal Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development funding to completely overhaul and expand the Oglebay Grow Center in Wheeling. Moore says the major cash infusion will provide local farmers with the infrastructure needed to strengthen the region's agricultural supply lines and bring fresh produce directly into local communities.In health and advocacy news, a groundbreaking new piece of legislation passed in Charleston will soon mandate insurance coverage for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Named "Jessica Huffman's Law" after a local nursing leader and breast cancer survivor, the new law forces health insurance carriers to cover the cost of scalp-cooling systems, which help prevent hair loss by constricting blood vessels during treatment. The cooling devices typically cost around eighteen-hundred dollars, and with the passage of the bill, West Virginia becomes only the third state in the country to require the coverage.Two West Virginia United Way chapters are uniting to launch a vital new emergency safety network across all fifty-five counties. The Tygart Valley and Central West Virginia branches have officially unveiled "United We Prepare"—a statewide disaster preparedness initiative backed by corporate funding from Verizon. The project will establish two state-of-the-art Resiliency Centers in Fairmont and Charleston to offer workshops, crisis training, and critical aid, with organizers prioritizing underserved regions like Mingo County for immediate support.State education officials are stepping up to bridge a critical nutritional gap for local children over the summer break. The West Virginia Department of Education is partnering with the federal government to activate roughly three-hundred-seventy-five community sites providing free meals to children eighteen and younger while school is out. The initiative serves as a major lifeline across the Mountain State, where education officials note that a staggering eighty-five percent of all public school students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.An incredible environmental success story is being celebrated near Morgantown, where a historic twenty-five-mile waterway has officially returned to life after decades of severe pollution. Thanks to a public-private partnership between the Department of Environmental Protection and Northeast Natural Energy, the Richard Mine Treatment Facility has successfully cleared generations of toxic acid mine drainage from Deckers Creek. After a six-hundred-thousand-dollar cleanup effort, native large-mouth bass and rainbow trout have been spotted swimming in the stream for the first time in nearly a century.And a major retail expansion has officially crossed the finish line in Marshall County. Sheetz has opened its very first location in Moundsville along Lafayette Avenue, marking the popular convenience chain’s sixty-second store to begin operations inside the Mountain State.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.