radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for June 05, 2026

Good morning from the radioNOVO state news center.The Mountain State's energy sector is bracing for a massive financial injection. President Trump is scheduled to announce a sweeping seven-hundred-million-dollar federal funding package designed to aggressively bolster the American coal industry from the Oval Office this afternoon. To execute the major initiative, the administration is invoking emergency powers under the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, which grants the executive branch authority to directly subsidize private production deemed vital to national security. The multi-million-dollar program will allocate funds to modernize existing coal-fired power plants and secure critical supply chains, a major move for West Virginia where coal production continues to supply a substantial portion of the nation's baseline electricity grid.Meanwhile, tech giant Google has officially launched a brand-new, comprehensive online information platform specifically designed to keep Putnam County residents updated on its massive data center project near Buffalo. The multibillion-dollar high-impact development was first announced in late March after the company secured seventeen-hundred acres of land along Route Sixty-Two. Local development officials report that the newly unveiled digital hub provides complete transparency regarding energy infrastructure, site layout plans, and full-time tech job projections, while ensuring that all associated utility and water grid upgrades are completely paid for by Google rather than local residential taxpayers.In academic news, state education officials are celebrating significant academic turnarounds across three West Virginia school districts currently under state intervention. The superintendents of Mingo, Nicholas, and Tyler counties delivered formal progress reports to the state Board of Education. In Nicholas County, student performance metrics are now officially meeting or exceeding national averages in math and language arts, while construction on a massive new pre-K through eighth-grade school complex in Summersville is tracking completely ahead of schedule.And a major manhunt remains active in Cabell County this morning. Huntington police detectives are asking for public assistance as they search for twenty-one-year-old Harley James-Haren following a violent Tuesday afternoon shooting on Baer Street.