Local News

Charleston city leaders know that vacant homes, especially on the city’s West Side, are an eyesore. Sometimes the owners have moved away, even out of state, and left the properties with boarded up windows...

Work on clearing what remains of Yeager Airport’s collapsed safety overrun area will be on hold until protocols for collecting samples of materials from the slide for use as evidence in pending lawsuits are...

A hearing is coming up for Alpha Natural Resources as the company asks a judge to allow it to break a contract with a union in order to reorganize its finances. The Associated Press...

West Virginia is revisiting the idea of larger cuts to state employee and retiree health plans as a state budget stalemate drags on. West Virginia’s Public Employee Insurance Agency Finance Board met yesterday to...

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has approved a push to let West Virginia voters decide, county by county, if local restaurants and other businesses should serve alcohol on Sunday mornings. The proposal signed by Tomblin...

The Wheeling Suspension Bridge has reopened after an inspection crew found no damage to the historic structure. The West Virginia Division of Highways closed the span last week after an overweight Greyhound bus drove...

Procter & Gamble will make laundry, hair care and body wash products at a plant it is building in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. The Cincinnati-based consumer goods company’s new $500 million manufacturing hub near...

Some West Virginia nurses will soon have expanded abilities to prescribe treatments. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin signed the nursing bill today after the Republican-led Legislature passed it. It takes effect in June. Advanced practice...

Two Wheeling nonprofit organizations with missions of historic preservation and economic revitalization have decided to merge. The boards of the Wheeling National Heritage Area Corp. and Reinvent Wheeling announced the merger yesterday.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has approved two bills that address West Virginia’s substance abuse problem. The Democrat signed bills today dealing with regulation of opioid treatment clinics and availability of life-saving opioid overdose medication....