News Staff Potential medical cannabis patients have been waiting since the law passed in 2017 and starting tomorrow (Wednesday) they’ll be able to register for a card. Starting Wednesday at noon, they will be able to go to www.medcanwv.org to sign up. There are 15 medical conditions that qualify you to receive medical cannabis and they are … Read more
The West Virginia DHHR recently issued permits for dispensaries across the state. The City of Ravenswood will have a medical cannabis dispensary at their old City Hall. Holistic WV Farms I, LLC will operate dispensaries in Charleston, South Charleston, Bridgeport, and Elkins. Harvest Care Medical LLC will operate in Charleston and St. Albans. And Mountaineer … Read more
The Boone County sheriff’s office got a new X-Ray machine donated by the US Postal Inspection Service. Sheriff Chad Barker said they will use it to scan suspicious packages. The X-Ray machine scans packages and an image of the contents pops up a computer nearby. The sheriff’s office hopes it saves time in potentially dangerous … Read more
For the second year in a row, the National Youth Science Camp will be a virtual event. The camp for graduating high schoolers interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, will take place between June 28th and July 21st. The application deadline is February 28th.
Appalachian Power is asking the Public Service Commission for permission to expand broadband service in Mingo and Logan counties. The plan calls for installing over four-hundred miles of fiber optic cable on existing power poles. The project is expected to cost around sixty-million-dollars.
COVID-19 numbers continue to trend downward. West Virginia health officials are reporting over six-hundred-fifty new cases of the virus, and nine more people have died. Hospitalizations dropped to under four-hundred-sixty. That’s the lowest number since November.
West Virginia Senator Shelly Moore Capito is part of a ten-member group of Republican senators proposing an alternative to President Biden’s one-point-nine-trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief plan. The senator’s proposal is considerable smaller, at 600-billion-dollars, and they believe it can gain bipartisan support.
The Bear Rocks and Allegheny Front Preserve will become America’s 600th National Natural Landmark. The more than 12-hundred acre tract adjoins the Monongahela National Forest and its Dolly Sods Wilderness.
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting. A man was shot on Nancy Street when an SUV pulled up beside him and fired several shots. Forty-one-year-old Theon Anderson was shot in the arm, and is not cooperating with police. He’s in stable condition. No arrests have been made.
A Mingo County man is under arrest for stealing more than 15-thousand-dollars of cable and insulators from Frazier Creek Mining property. Richard Smoots is also accused of assaulting an officer.