Soccer game planned Sunday in memory of accident victim
By Staff reports The inaugural George Washington High School girls soccer alumni game will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Friends of Coal Fields at Trace Fork in South Charleston. The year's game...
View ArticleLincoln County tire collection scheduled for June 4
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection's REAP program is hosting a local tire collection to rid Lincoln County of old tires. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4 at...
View ArticleTwo Charleston pools open for free this weekend
Pools at the North Charleston and Kanawha City community centers will be open for free over the holiday weekend. They'll operate from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, then will close...
View ArticleAmmunition factory planned for Eastern Kanawha
By Andrew Brown A Texas-based company is set to make an announcement Tuesday for what is expected to be a proposed ammunition manufacturing facility in Eastern Kanawha County that, according to a...
View ArticleVideo: Live on the Levee kicks off in Charleston
The annual event, now in its 13th year, kicked off Friday night with performances by the Bob Thompson Band and Hybrid Soul Project and ended with fireworks. The free concert series will run every...
View ArticleStatehouse Beat: Still no budget, government shutdown looms
If Democrats win back one or both houses of the Legislature in November, Tuesday will be remembered as a red letter day toward that end. Of course, that was the day of the tobacco tax bill debacle, as...
View ArticleWVSU to host 4-H STEM camp
The annual National Summer Transportation Institute 4-H camp for students entering sixth through eighth grades is accepting applications for the June 13-24 camp hosted by West Virginia State...
View ArticleAppalachian musicians reunite for 40th Vandalia Gathering
By Jennifer Gardner For Don Allen, of Columbus, Ohio, the Vandalia Gathering is like coming home. "It's like a grand family reunion," he said. Musicians, foodies, dancers and artisans gathered across...
View ArticleCoal executive's family issues statement of thanks
By The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The family of slain coal executive Bennett Hatfield has issued a statement thanking those who have helped them and offered condolences following the...
View ArticleAfter 20 years, Hur Herald ending this month
By Jake Jarvis HUR - Bob Weaver can't hear the chorus of cicadas singing just outside his door. He's sitting in a room where the buzz of an air conditioner working overtime on a humid day drowns out...
View ArticleDrop could take big toll on state
By Phil Kabler One rating agency has already downgraded the state's bond rating, based on the downturn in the global energy market, and officials have advised the other Wall Street rating houses are...
View ArticleWVU having trouble filling apartment rooms
By Jake Jarvis The four apartment complexes West Virginia University operates as an option for students to live on campus after leaving the dorms appear on track for a noticeably empty year. As of May...
View ArticlePolice find body in vacant West Side house
By Staff reports Charleston police found the body of a severely decomposed man inside a vacant West Side house on Saturday. Lt. Steve Cooper, chief of detectives for the Charleston Police Department,...
View ArticleVeterans documentary to air on West Virginia Public Broadcasting
By Erin Beck Iraq War veteran Mark Combs knows of more than a dozen veterans who have killed themselves. When he received a phone call in 2014 about another who had died by suicide, he decided to do...
View ArticleThings to do today: May 29, 2016
MusicWV MUSIC HALL OF FAME GARDEN PARTY: 3 p.m., Café Cimino in Sutton. Tickets, $65 in advance, $75 at the door. Pays tribute to West Virginia pedal steel great, Gary Boggs who performed with George...
View ArticleSteelhammer: Barriers between bear species go south as climate change arrives...
In the far north, global warming is making for some strange den-fellows, according to a Washington Post article that appeared last week. The Post article, titled "Love in the Time of Climate Change,...
View ArticleThird-annual Try This conference starts Friday
By Lydia Nuzum In Harrison County, a city farmers' market helped more than 300 kids last summer learn about and "purchase" fruits and vegetables with tokens from its free Power of Produce Club. In...
View ArticleWho wants to be mayor of Richwood? Everybody.
By David Gutman RICHWOOD - There's no butcher, there's no baker (there's not even a grocery store), there's no candlestick maker. But just about everybody else, it seems, is running for mayor of...
View ArticleQuestions remain on Tomblin's Hobet mine road plan
By Andrew Brown Gov. Tomblin's signature plan to build a roadway from Corridor G to the Hobet surface mine in Boone County has been put out for bid, but that project proposal may be raising more...
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