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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is shutting down a couple more flood recovery centers in the state. The center at Birch River Elementary School in Nicholas County and the center at the Alderson Senior...

Three different teachers unions are filing a lawsuit in an attempt to get pay and benefits returned to Boone County teachers. Last month, the Boone County School Board voted to cut pay and take...

The Clendenin Elementary School building will not reopen. The school is the second one in Kanawha County that was damaged beyond repair after the June 23rd flood. The Kanawha County School Board held a...

After damage from the June floods, one Kanawha County School will not re-open. The Kanawha County Board of Education announced Wednesday, the flooding damaged Clendenin Elementary so significantly, that they’ll have to build a...

Nitro businesses may be getting a tax break. The Nitro CIty Council is looking for ways to boost economic development, and one way of doing it is to make tax breaks available to a...

Kroger says three of its grocery stores outside of Charleston’s city limits have been mistakenly charging customers a 1 percent city sales tax. Kroger spokesman John Lambert said Tuesday that stores in the Kanawha...

The West Virginia attorney general’s office has amended a civil complaint against Volkswagen of America Inc. over the automaker’s emissions-rigging scandal. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday the complaint now includes Volkswagen’s parent and...

A check for 169-thousand-dollars will allow a Charleston man to pay off his daughter’s mortgage. The money came from the state’s unclaimed property division. Gary Cohen found out about the money from the Treasurer’s...

The days of standing out in the middle of the road and straining your eyes to see if you can see your KRT bus are behind you. The new Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority...

State legislators are waiting on FEMA before scheduling their special session to discuss flood relief funding. Right now, the federal agency is agreeing to cover around 75-million-dollars of the flood damage costs, leaving the...