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A West Virginia Board of Pharmacy report says a prescription drug used to treat nerve pain is contributing to a sharp increase of overdose deaths in the state. The Gazette-Mail reports the number of...

A stabbing on the West Side leaves one person in custody. It happened Saturday night around 10pm on Bigley Avenue at the Westmoreland Apartments. Charleston police arrested one person, and another was taken to...

West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has requested original color wildlife paintings for the 2018 edition of its wildlife calendar. Paintings can show popular fish or game or West Virginia’s other wildlife, like snakes,...

In a state with above-average unemployment, the state’s premier hospital system is booming. WVU Medicine hired 2,228 staff last year, has openings for 699 more and expects further expansion. That follows this week’s opening...

College students in Kentucky and West Virginia who train for the rapidly growing drone industry are getting some financial backing from the Appalachian Regional Commission. U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins of West Virginia says in...

Marshall University is receiving a $1.3 million grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to train community health workers in coal counties in eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio and parts of West Virginia. U.S. Rep. Evan...

A 1920 Milburn Light electric car that had been stored in a flooded outbuilding before Putnam County antique car collector Carroll Hutton bought it during an estate sale in the 1990s and restored it...

West Virginia American Water’s reaction to the Freedom Industries chemical spill will be discussed this week in court. The spill had an impact on more than a dozen state counties and regulators held public...

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is being ordered to serve the remaining portion of his sentence. Blankenship was given a year in prison for safety issues after the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine...

The Raleigh County school board is set to cut nearly 100 positions within the school system. WVVA-TV reports that at a special meeting of the Board of Education this week, officials said Raleigh County...