Toll fees Extended
Toll fees are being extended on the West Virginia Turnpike. The fees were originally scheduled to end in 2019 after bonds were paid off, but parkway officials voted yesterday to keep them in place....
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Letting Elk Loose
Ten days from now elk will be reintroduced into Southern West Virginia. Twenty elk that were rounded up recently in Kentucky will be the first to be let loose in an area in Logan...
Naval Station
The former U.S. Sugar Grove Naval Station is going to become a healthcare campus. Those are the plans announced by the U.S. General Services Administration yesterday. The Pendleton County facility was sold to Robert...
Perdue Retiring
Kenny Perdue says he is retiring. The president of the West Virginia AFL-CIO says he is prepared to walk away and spend more time with his wife and family. Perdue has been with the...
Ken Hechler has passed
West Virginia statesman and author Ken Hechler has died at age 102. Hechler’s wife, Carol Hechler, says her husband died Saturday night at their home in Romney. Ken Hechler’s seven-decade career included stints in...
Boone County Pharmacy Sued for Dispensing Too Many Pain Pills
State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is suing a pharmacy in Boone County over painkillers. Morrisey alleges that Larry’s Drive-In Pharmacy helped boost the state’s problems with too many highly addictive painkiller prescriptions, and gave...
Paving Companies Want Suit Thrown Out
Paving companies are asking that a pending lawsuit against them be dismissed. Five cities, as well as the Kanawha County Commission and the WV Dept. of Transportation, filed an anti-trust lawsuit against half a...
Home Heating & Flood victims
With the weather getting colder, the focus for those still fighting to recover from the June 23rd flood is changing to home heating. The Clay County Long Term Recovery Committee has seen a recent...
Justice & transition Team
Governor-elect Jim Justice is putting together his transition team. Several names of who will play key roles in the transition are surfacing, from Huntington Mayor Steve Williams to former Senator Carte Goodwin. Business and...
Opioid Epidemic Conference
Several national speakers will be in Huntington next week for a conference on the region’s opioid epidemic. The chief medical officer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will be among those...
