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When the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus comes to Charleston in early May it will be among the final shows of all time. The circus announced that after 146 years they are...

Alan Larrick is the new director of the West Virginia Lottery. Governor Jim Justice made the appointment hours before being sworn in as governor. Larkin is a long-time banker and lawyer from Beckley County....

Senator Joe Manchin says the country needs to come together in the wake of Russian hacking. Speaking on CBS’s “Face The Nation” Manchin said investigating the Russian hacking during the 2016 election should be...

Jim Justice has his full cabinet in place as he takes over the state’s top office. Justice has been filling the positions for the last several weeks and finalized it over the weekend when...

West Virginia’s 36th Governor is officially in office. Jim Justice was sworn in yesterday morning and took his oath of office at The Greenbrier Chapel during a private ceremony as he succeeds Earl Ray...

After seven years of state control, Fayette County is on the verge of regaining partial control of its local school system. The West Virginia Board of Education voted to give Fayette’s local school board...

The Cabell County Commission is considering whether to seek damages from opioid manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies, pharmacists and prescribing doctors for the prescription painkillers that fueled the state’s drug epidemic. The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reports that...

Investigators are looking into the case after a body was pulled from the Kanawha River in Mason County. 911 dispatchers got a call Saturday night around 6pm that a body had been found in...

West Virginia Gov.-elect Jim Justice has announced his new lottery chief. Justice announced in a news release Sunday that he has appointed Alan Larrick as director of the West Virginia Lottery. Larrick has been...

There are many flags in Nitro’s World War I Museum, but 92-year-old Clyde Mynes has a few favorites. One is a small American flag he carried in Berlin during World War II. The other,...