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Unofficial numbers from the secretary of state’s office show voter turnout in West Virginia was higher than the previous general election but didn’t eclipse the 2008 race. Figures released Wednesday show 728,248 voters, or...

For at least one group _ the blue-collar downtrodden _ Donald Trump’s election was a harbinger of hope. In his victory speech, Trump called them America’s “forgotten men and women” _ the workers from...

Democratic Gov.-elect Jim Justice says West Virginians can expect to see some noticeable enhancements to the state’s sluggish economy in his first 10 months in office. The billionaire businessman and owner of The Greenbrier...

The Charleston Veteran’s Day parade is coming up tomorrow, and more than 60 units are expected to be part of it. This is the 75th Veterans Day Parade in Charleston, and it will line...

A former Marshall University football player whose teammates died in a plane crash will be the featured speaker at this year’s memorial service. The school says Dennis Foley, who wasn’t on the flight due...

With Tuesday’s vote, two counties say yes to earlier alcohol sales on Sundays. The brunch bill was approved in Putnam and Cabell Counties, making alcohol sales legal on Sundays at 10am instead of 1pm....

Officials say voters in 11 West Virginia counties have passed ballot initiatives to allow hunting on Sunday on private property. The Kanawha County Commission says in a news release that unofficial totals show the...

With Donald Trump clinching West Virginia in a blowout, Republicans have won a few longstanding Democratic statewide offices and defended their first-term attorney general. The other notable GOP wins included all three U.S. House...

Donald Trump, as we all know, secured an expected victory over Hillary Clinton here in coal-focused West Virginia. The Mountain State was one of Trump’s most supportive in the Republican primary. The billionaire businessman...

While West Virginia overwhelmingly picked Republican billionaire political outsider Donald Trump, the state widely preferred a Democratic billionaire political outsider, Jim Justice, for governor. The Mountain State scoffed off Justice’s political party label, picked...