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Making the switch. Charleston is considering ending a rule that allows residents to use recycling bins instead of clear plastic bags the city provides. Bins were allowed last year. The city says it will...

Putnam County officials want some residents to update their information if they’ve moved…the request coming after 40% of the tax statements sent out to folks around Liberty were returned. The county says those addresses...

More now on a missing teen from Cross Lanes… the mother, Angela Fields has been arrested for obstructing an officer after her 14-year old daughter, Autumn, was reported missing. Her father has full-custody, and...

Sixteen cats and one dog were among nearly two dozen dead animals seized from the home of a Charleston woman this week. Officers were called after a complaint by a neighbor who said a...

Governors are gathering in West Virginia this weekend, and among the topics…Money to repair highways, rising health care costs and global warming. The National Governors Association summer meeting is on at The Greenbrier resort...

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is launching a truancy diversion program as part of a juvenile justice system overhaul. County boards of education can apply for funding for a truancy diversion specialist to improve school...

The Grils Scout Jamboree is on and that means Scouts are at the Summit in West Virginia for five days of mountain biking, rock climbing and other outdoor challenges. The first day was Wednesday...

West Virginia’s unemployment rate has increased for five consecutive months, reaching the highest level in the nation in June. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased two-tenths of a percentage point in June to...

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to schedule a guilty plea hearing for Gary Southern — the top executive charged in last year’s massive chemical spill. Southern faces federal pollution and bankruptcy fraud charges...

Heads up for drivers on Friday night…the Kanawha County Sheriff’s office is conducting a high visibility sobriety checkpoint from 6pm to midnight on US Rt. 119 near Elk View. This is another one of...