Twenty-Four Carrot Country
West Virginia is receiving more than $1.5 million in funds aimed at softening the blow of the state’s battered coal economy. The so-called POWER funding draws upon the resources of several federal agencies and...
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin was one of many on hand for the groundbreaking for the final 14.6-mile section of U.S. 35 between Putnam and Mason counties. The ceremony happened Wednesday at the Department of...
A new downtown hotel deal is off after a meeting Wednesday with the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority. The authority had considered developing a new downtown hotel with Virginia-based developer KM Hotels, but problems with...
Mountaineer Gas has won state approval to increase its base rates by $7.7 million. The West Virginia Public Service Commission says the 3 percent increase will be more than offset by a reduction in...
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is warning West Virginians about a scam involving bogus credit card debt collections. Morrissey says the callers target consumers about an overdue credit card debt and insist on getting payment...
Two Hatfield-McCoy Trail System trails in Boone and Lincoln counties are being closed because the trail land has been sold. The system will lose 200 miles of ATV trails from the closure of the...
President Obama is planning to visit Charleston. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said President Obama is planning to visit the Capital City next Wednesday, and WCHS TV says he’ll be addressing the drug and heroin...
Appalachian Power has asked West Virginia regulators to allow the company to dismantle the Philip Sporn Power Plant in Mason County and the Glen Lyn plant in Giles County, Virginia. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports...
Lauren Thompson is the daughter of Mingo Judge Miki Thompson, and is under investigation for contempt of court. And this week the state Supreme Court ruled she can’t work on anything new while the...
Prosecutors are continuing to replay phone calls ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship secretly recorded in his office. In recordings played in federal court Tuesday, Blankenship said he sometimes thought without federal mine regulators, “we’d...
