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A woman who died when a small plane flipped and caught fire at Yeager Airport Saturday was a flight instructor who lived in Charleston, her friends say. Friends of Brenda Gilland Jackson confirm she...

A former Kanawha County bus driver’s federal lawsuit over a supervisor deleting hours she entered on a time clock has been ongoing for a year, and her attorney is criticizing the school system for...

West Virginia American Water has informed Charleston City Council and other local governments that it wants to place an extra surcharge on customer’s monthly bills in the near future. The company’s interest in filing...

After seven years of planning, grant-writing, regulatory check-offs, public hearings and heated controversy, West Virginia’s first stream enhancement dam removal project is underway. Demolition of the West Milford Dam will be followed in coming...

Fatal overdoses linked to a powerful opioid nearly tripled in West Virginia last year. The Gazette-Mail reports that overdoses caused by fentanyl increased from 55 deaths in 2014 to 154 deaths last year. West...

The second passenger in Saturday’s fatal place crash at Yeager Airport remains in the hospital in critical condition. Yeager Airport spokesman Mike Plante said the injured person underwent surgery after the incident on Saturday...

Officials have investigated at least 12 cases of hepatitis linked to a heart clinic in Beckley. There are reports viruses have been linked to injectable medications given during cardiac stress tests at the Raleigh...

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has approved increased penalties for passing stopped school buses. Tomblin signed the bill Thursday. On a first offense, drivers passing a school bus that stopped to pick up...

A fire at Charleston Area Medical Center’s Memorial Division in Charleston yesterday, was blamed on a generator. The fire was inside of a teaching classroom in the hospital. The Charleston Fire Department quickly knocked...

The first TV ad by an outside group in the West Virginia governor’s race is running, and it criticizes billionaire businessman Jim Justice in the three-way Democratic primary. According to Federal Communications Commission filings,...