News Staff Water customers may not realize it, but many of them have been switched to a new system. The Page-Kincaid PSD water treatment plant is out of service and all customers are getting water from West Virginia American Water’s New River water treatment plant. The Page-Kincaid system already had an interconnection with the WVAW New River … Read more
The City of Charleston’s Christmas tree lighting is tonight at six o’clock at Slack Plaza. It will be live streamed on the city’s Facebook page.
The West Virginia Department of Education is sending out surveys to each county to find out if educators plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Teacher’s union representatives say it is up to each individual educator to decide if they want to get vaccinated.
For a fifth straight day, there are over a thousand new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, and twenty-seven more people have died. There are almost eight-hundred people hospitalized with the virus. That number is down since Tuesday.
Thousands of West Virginia health care workers have received the COVID-19 vaccine over the past three days, and now the next group to get vaccine will be nursing home residents and workers.
Senator Joe Manchin is part of a bipartisan group of legislators working on a coronavirus relief package. The nine-hundred-billion-dollar proposal will include another round of stimulus payments of up to seven-hundred-dollars.
Portsmouth Mayor Kevin Johnson is warning people to watch out for porch pirates after several packages were stolen from his own home.
Police are investigating after a person was shot and injured at a 7-Eleven on Washington Street East. The victim’s injuries are not life threatening. No arrests have been made.
A Huntington woman is facing additional charges after a kidnapping victim died. Thirty-six-year-old Zinya Dooley is accused of kidnapping and beating two women at a home on Buffington Avenue. One of the victims has died from her injuries. The condition of the other victim hasn’t been released.
A second teenager is under arrest in connection to the death of a family in the Pinch area on Sunday. A 17-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy are charged with murder.