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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...

Police in Logan County arrested two students in connection to a bomb threat made at Logan High School Thursday. The two students, both boys, ages 15 and 16. Logan High and surrounding schools were...

During his Charleston visit on Wednesday, President Obama acknowledged that the nation’s drug problem is staggering and said his administration continues to work to tackle it. More Americans now die from drug overdoses than...

The Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority is buying a new truck that’s expected to reduce recycling costs in the long run. At a meeting this week, the solid waste authority voted to accept a...

Coal industry supporters took the opporunity with President Obama in town Wednesday to rally to protest federal policies. The West Virginia Coal Forum organized the event at the State Capitol. Coal advocates say Obama’s...

The West Virginia Ethics Commission is offering a training session for lobbyists. The one-hour course on provisions of the Ethics Act relevant to lobbyists is being held Thursday at the commission’s office in Charleston....

Lawmakers are asked to get rid of greyhound racing, but owners and breeders of greyhounds are hoping to counter a state-funded study that concluded the sport is fading. The study concluded greyhound racing survives...

The West Virginia School Building Authority is being sued after rejecting the school consolidation plan in Fayette County. Fayette County Prosecutor and county attorney Larry Harrah says the nonprofit Charleston law firm Mountain State...

In ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship’s trial, former mine supervisors have testified about being pushed to produce more coal despite poor conditions underground before a deadly 2010 mine explosion. In federal court, former section...

Through the first half of 2015, Kanawha County has equaled the number of heroin-related overdose deaths that occurred in the county last year and is on pace to record the county’s most overdose deaths...