Twenty-Four Carrot Country
West Virginia health officials say flu season has arrived. State health officer Dr. Rahul Gupta and state schools Superintendent Michael Martirano attended an event Monday in Charleston where they encouraged parents to have their...
Hundreds of former Patriot Coal miners met with Kentucky-based Blackhawk Mining officials Monday at the Charleston Civic Center in hopes of getting jobs with the company. Blackhawk is in the process of buying out...
A ziploc bag instead of a backpack? In a move to keep bed bugs out of classrooms, a Charleston elementary school is banishing book bags in favor of sealed plastic bags. Today at Chamberlain...
West Virginia has significantly reduced the number of residents without insurance. The Gazette-Mail reports that Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell told advocates at the University of Charleston on Friday that West Virginia is one of...
A group of stakeholders is outlining a series of measures it says will aid West Virginia’s struggling greyhound racing industry. The report includes recommendations like allowing advanced deposit wagering so wagers can be placed...
A key government witness in the Don Blankenship trial says he was threatened with prosecution and testified under immunity. The witness, ex-Performance Coal President Christopher Blanchard, continued testifying Friday in the trial of his...
Alpha Natural Resources is planning to sell at least 16 shuttered coal mines in four states. Alpha is based in Bristol, Virginia and says in court bankruptcy documents that January 20, 2016 is the...
A St. Albans man facing drug charges will have to stay in jail. Christopher Ayash is charged with manufacturing cocaine inside a clandestine lab at his home, and a judge ruled this week that...
A political operative hired by West Virginia’s attorney general has quit, saying his hiring had become a distraction. Lance James Henderson’s resignation as Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s deputy chief of staff came after a...
The Sheetz convenience store is open now in South Charleston, and make that 60 stores now in West Virginia for the chain. There are more than 500 Sheetz stores nationwide. This one is along...
