News Staff The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is asking you to celebrate Passover and Easter at home to help slow down the spread of COVID-19. Officials encourage you to take part in virtual services and avoid in-person gatherings. There are 75 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Kanawha County. There are more than seventy new cases of the virus … Read more
The Kanawha County Commission unanimously passed a “hero pay” raise for frontline workers earlier this week, and now other local municipalities are calling on the Governor and Legislature to enact a tax holiday for all emergency services workers.
Local nurses can get free gas today. The first two-hundred nurses that show up between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. at Exxon One Stop in Kanawha City will get their tanks topped off, and again tonight between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Exxon One Stop in South Charleston.
More than a dozen WVU students tested positive for the virus. The students returned to off-campus housing, and have not been on campus. Health officials are working to retrace the affected students’ movements. WVU switched to online instruction at the end of March, and there will be no in-person class time until the fall semester … Read more
Marion County joins the list of coronavirus hotspots in West Virginia with more than thirty positive cases. Statewide there are more than 480 cases of COVID-19 and four people have died.
A building at a St. Alban car dealership collapsed during a severe thunderstorm early Thursday morning. Strong winds destroyed the Moses Auto Group’s building on MacCorkle Avenue. No one was hurt.
A coronavirus hotline for West Virginia residents has been fielding thousands of calls from general questions about prevention tips to more specific ones about test availability and workplace safety guidelines. The West Virginia Poison Center operates the state Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus hotline (1-800-887-4304). The call center is on WVU’s Charleston Division … Read more
Some local business owners want to show their appreciation to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today only, organizers will be paying for and pumping nurses’ gas from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Exxon One Stop in Kanawha City for the first 200 nurses that arrive. Affiliated Financial Group and Dr. Kalou with Mountaineer Family … Read more
The West Virginia Supreme Court will proceed with its spring oral argument docket next week and hear select oral arguments using remote technology on Tuesday, April 14. The court is hearing only cases in time-sensitive abuse and neglect and criminal matters. Other cases are being rescheduled. Arguments will be webcast, as usual, on YouTube using … Read more
A group of organizers in Charleston are helping service workers who’ve been impacted by COVID-19 in the Kanawha Valley. Better Together CWV is a charitable organization designed to support service workers who are unemployed or have had hours reduced because of the pandemic. Better Together CWV has partnered with over twenty businesses to help raise … Read more