News Staff The North Charleston Community Center is closed this week after a Charleston Parks and Recreation Department employee tested positive for COVID-19. The West Virginia National Guard will clean the community center. The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is contact tracing for those that have been at the North Charleston Community Center since Sunday, Nov. 15. The employee … Read more
The St. Albans Festival of Lights will open this Friday for its 32nd year, with some modifications because of the pandemic. The festival at St. Albans City Park started in 1988 and it has grown with new displays every year. The annual hay rides and Santa shop are canceled this year, but displayes of Homer … Read more
A federal judge has denied an emergency motion sought by a Putnam County restaurant that challenged Gov. Jim Justice’s stay-at-home order and mask mandate. A judge ruled against Andrew and Ashley Stewart, who own Dinner’s Ready Inc. doing business as Bridge Café & Bistro in Hurricane. The judge said federal courts, unless federal laws were … Read more
Gov. Jim Justice said experts may have to look at specific counties for modifications in coronavirus strategies going forward, but the only weapons the state has right now to fight the spread of the virus is wearing a mask and getting tested. The latest figures show there are a record 463 hospitalized in West Virginia … Read more
A Kanawha County Sheriff’s Deputy noticed a vehicle that had been reported stolen, and that led to an arrest. The deputy spotted the vehicle on Saturday on I-77 near Cabin Creek and turned around to catch up with it. The deputy tried a traffic stop near Greenbrier Street in Charleston, but the driver didn’t stop. … Read more
This year’s White House Christmas tree is a tree from a West Virginia tree farm. The eighteen-foot Fraser Fir from Dan and Bryan Trees in Shepherdstown arrives today in D.C.
Kroger workers overwhelmingly ratified a new contract. The new deal guarantees fully-funded health care benefits and raises for all employees. The contract is for three-and-a-half years.
A Capital jet Center employee tested positive for COVID-19. Yeager Airport officials say the risk to traveler is low, and the airport has been sanitized. The country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says he’s worried that Thanksgiving travelers, crowding airports, could lead to a surge in COVID-19 cases.
There are almost nine-hundred new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia and four more people have died. The state’s positive test rate is over five-percent.
Six West Virginia counties are in the red, and thirteen are in the orange on the latest Department of Education map. Jackson, Wood, Marshall, Mineral, Hardy and Berkeley all remained red.