News Staff Four Metro 911 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 with additional tests pending. The positive tests were reported between Wednesday and Friday, according to a news release from Metro 911. Officials said the 911 system and operations will not be affected, and phones will be answered. Strict protocols have been in place to help prevent … Read more
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department reported Saturday that 250 new cases have been identified and that was the fourth day in a row of more than 200 new cases added. Active cases are at 1,452, up 16. The county now has had more than 30,000 virus cases during the pandemic. On Thursday, a joint statement was … Read more
Charleston Area Medical Center has urged the public to help with the fight against the virus. The hospital is asking anyone with mild COVID-19 symptoms or who has been exposed to the virus to get tested at a CAMC drive-through location or at a community testing site. Emergency rooms and urgent care centers are seeing … Read more
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department reported Saturday that 250 new cases have been identified and that was the fourth day in a row of more than 200 new cases added. Active cases are at 1,452, up 16. The county now has had more than 30,000 virus cases during the pandemic. On Thursday, a joint statement was … Read more
WVU starting quarterback Jarret Doege is planning to transfer. He tweeted that he is looking for a new home for the 2022 season. Doege’s decision was announced hours after Winston Wright, West Virginia’s leading wide receiver the past two seasons, said he is entering the transfer portal.
Officials at eight state parks are encouraging people to spend the first day of the New Year outdoors on a First Day Hike. It’s part of a nationwide initiative led by America’s State Parks with hundreds of free guided hikes in all fifty states.
The State Auditor’s Office will once again have to manually input 37-thousand state employees information before they can get paid. UKG, the private company that administers the state’s time and leave system, still hasn’t corrected the impact from a recent ransomeware attack. The attack impacted 140 state agencies. The state has put UKG on notice … Read more
Bear hunters found human remains in a remote part of the Monongahela National Forest in Pendleton County, and the led state police to the site. Personal items and skeletal remain are believed to the remains of Cassie Sheetz, who’s been missing since March. Sheetz was last seen in the parking lot of the Huckleberry Trail … Read more
The Kanawha County Commission is considering a change to its COIVD related leave policy. The Commission will consider a proposal next week that would require vaccinated county workers who haven’t gotten a COVID booster to use their sick leave if they come down with the virus and have to miss work.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is confirming over 200 new COVID cases per day for the third straight day. DHHR confirmed more than 26-hundred new COVID cases in the past 24-hours statewide. That’s one of the highest one-day totals since the pandemic started. Just over 54-percent of the state’s eligible population, ages five and older, are … Read more