Local News

Work started Thursday on the Russell Creek Bridge between U.S. Route 60 and Altizer in Cabell County. That will cause a temporary closure of the bridge to all traffic between now and 6 a.m....

A Charleston attorney has filed a petition with the West Virginia Supreme Court, seeking to block Evan Jenkins and Tim Armstead from being appointed to fill two vacant seats on the court and to...

A doctor accused of overprescribing pain medicine faces 22 charges. A grand jury found Dr. Muhammed Samer Nasher-Alneam prescribed painkillers that weren’t for legitimate medical purposes. One person died from an overdose. The indictment...

Jada Reeves teaches fifth grade at Bradley Elementary School in Raleigh County and learned this week she’s the West Virginia Teacher of the Year. The West Virginia Department of Education announced the honor at...

Marshall University’s football game with the University of South Carolina has been canceled. The game was scheduled for Saturday night in Columbia, but USC officials canceled the game because of the impact of Hurricane...

Officers in Mingo County were pursuing a stolen truck in the Breeden area when a passenger wearing a black ski mask began throwing stolen items at the police cruiser. The suspects threw seven car...

Leaks at the Wave Pool in Putnam County have racked up and 80-thousand-dollar water bill for the City of Hurricane. Officials the Slide Pool and the Wave Pool leaked a total of one-million gallons...

State and local officials across West Virginia are preparing for Hurricane Florence as it approaches the Carolina coast. Fifty National Guard soldiers are staging across the state to prepare for emergency operations. And Air...

West Virginia leads the country in adult obesity for the second year in a row. The annual State of Obesity report charts West Virginias’s obesity rate at over 38-percent.

Huntington police are investigating after a body was found Wednesday evening. A woman’s body was found inside a home on Thornburg Street. A forensic unit is investigating. No word from police on the woman’s...