West Virginia’s University is marking West Virginia Day — the state’s 161st birthday — today (June 20) with the launch of a new statewide campaign highlighting the ties that bind the Mountain State and its flagship University.

The iconic “Let’s Go” flag will be a key part of the campaign.

Starting now and throughout the coming months, University faculty, staff, students and alumni along with all Mountaineer supporters are asked to fly their “Let’s Go” flag at locations across West Virginia to show their pride in WVU and the state on social media.

Request a “Let’s Go” flag.

To kick off the statewide campaign, WVU Alumni and friends will join Braden Adkins, the 70th Mountaineer mascot, for an 11:30 a.m. meet-and-greet event today (June 20) on the State Capitol steps in Charleston. The event will include a gold and blue photo and video shoot.

At 12:30 p.m. members of the WVU Alumni Association Greater Kanawha Chapter will host WVU supports at Fife Street Brewing, 180 Summers Street.

Event details are here.

Find more information about the campaign.

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — A group of coaches, female athletes and women’s advocates made a stop at a rally in Charleston Wednesday with the message to keep males out of female sports.

The event was part of a coast to coast summer tour from women’s advocacy coalition Our Bodies, Our Sports called “Take Back Title IX.”

WV Student Athlete Sabrina Shriver of Lincoln Middle School was there protesting competition with a male athlete at a girl’s championship.

“If something is wrong, then if you speak out, it can be changed, potentially fixed. And, you can give people voices and the courage to also speak out,” Shriver said.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was in attendance as well, arguing that the new Title IX rules strip away protections for women, including equal opportunity and privacy.

“The notion that these young women have to be competing against these bigger, stronger, more powerful biological males who call themselves female and then go change in the locker room, it’s just untenable,” DeVos said.

The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition formed two years ago. It claims it is the country’s first and only coalition of women’s advocacy organizations from across the political spectrum fighting for equal opportunity and fairness in women’s sports.

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Nuclear power could be expanding soon in the U.S. and West Virginia is on a list of targeted sights.

This is after the U.S. Senate passed a bill known as “The Advance Act.” One of the three senators who wrote this bill was West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R).

The bill authorizes the expansion of nuclear power in any state where it has also been approved.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is one of the leading supporters, and he toured a former coal-fired power plant in Kanawha County last year.

It could potentially be turned into a nuclear plant, just like Gates is currently building in Wyoming. The West Virginia legislature has also passed a law allowing nuclear power in the state.

“This basically sets the parameters and will hopefully jump-start much more rapidly, the development of small modular nuclear. These are not the big old nuclear reactors of old. These are small, They are more contained. They have less waste, and they also are emission-free,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, (R) West Virginia.

Only 15 members of Congress voted “no” on the nuclear power bill. It now heads to President Biden for his signature.

Bill Gates was a guest on “Face the Nation” this past Sunday and specifically mentioned West Virginia as a potential location for nuclear power plants.