Base sold
The online auction for the Sugar Grove Station is over. The former Navy Information Operations Command base was sold for just a little more than eleven-million-dollars. The identification of the highest bidder and their...
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Alpha Natural Resources
The new Alpha Natural Resources is a smaller company. The former coal giant emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week as a new mining company, with eight preparation plants and 18 mines across Kentucky...
legal issues
West Virginians who are running into issues related to last month’s deadly floods might be eligible for free legal services. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that Disaster Legal Services will provide legal...
Changes to health care
West Virginia officials are recommending that they form a nonprofit group to coordinate changes to federal and state health care systems. The Department of Health and Human Resources announced plans Wednesday to establish the...
Clendenin Schools flooding
Authorities say that almost all of Clendenin Elementary School has sustained flood damage. Kanawha County Commissioner Dave Hardy tells local media about 97 percent of the school was damaged during last month’s floods. Kanawha...
Elkview residents still have a wait reopening of shopping center
Elkview residents will have to wait at least two more months for a shopping center to reopen after an access bridge collapsed earlier last month during massive flash-flooding. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a new...
Elkview man threatens police
Authorities say an Elkview man has been arrested after posting a video on Facebook calling for police officers to be killed. Citing court records, media outlets report that 26-year-old Matthew Lane Furby was taken...
Highway worker dies
A highway worker has died in an accident in rural Mason County where a tree that fell during a recent storm was being removed. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports 52-year-old Steven Lloyd Oldaker of Letart...
Blair Mountain
The Department of the Interior is dropping its appeal of a ruling that said the agency shouldn’t have removed the site of the Blair Mountain labor battle from a list of historic places. In...
Legend Tony Bennett coming to town
Living legend Tony Bennett will open the 80th season of the Marshall Artists Series. Bennett will be in concert on September 29th. This year’s Artists Series will also feature three big-name Broadway hits: “Rent,”...