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The state has openings for 600 teachers, and the Board of Education has come up with an alternative teacher certification program for eight counties to try to fill them. State lawmakers passed a bill...

A new medical facililty is coming to Sissonville. It was back in February that the Sissonville Health Center was destroyed by fire, and three months later new plans are in place to bring an...

The National Park Service said southern West Virginia’s three national parks contributed more than $64 million in benefits to the local economy in 2015. Economists analyzed visitor spending at parks across the nation, including...

There are still people receiving calls as part of a scam, where the person on the other end of the line identifies as a clerk of the court or Kanawha County Deputy Sheriffs. He...

Marmet has its new mayor. Those who stepped up to apply included Bobby Wells, who ran in the last election, Jay Snodgrass, who is on the sanitation board, and Fontalbert, who used to be...

Changes are coming to I-64, and you’ve got a chance to hear about it first hand at a meeting next week. It’s a widening project on Interstate 64 that is expected to help with...

Kroger is hiring and they’ll have a job fair this weekend. You can go to any Kroger store in West Virginia on Saturday between 10am and 3pm with a resume, and be prepared for...

Now that the primary is over it’s time to take the signs down. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper sends the reminds to take down campaign signs from public right of ways and public...

More school cutbacks over budget issues. Boone County Schools are cutting back as the fiscal year wraps up June 30th. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports to make it through end of this fiscal year, Boone...

Attorneys for former coal executive Don Blankenship want to delay his entry into prison. An emergency motion in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Blankenship’s attorneys wrote that he’s slated to...