News Staff Captain James David Byrd, a 22-year veteran of the Charleston Fire Department, passed away last week. Most recently he had been Captain of Station 8 on Copenhaver Drive. Captain Byrd was a member of the Urban Search and Rescue team and the city of Charleston said on its website that he used his skills to … Read more
The Boone County Commission meets today at the Boone County Courthouse Annex and could address development plans. The Gazette-Mail reported a developer plans to build multiple cabins on Mountaineer Drive off U.S. 119. The site is near what was once Magic Mart and is now a new development for Boone Memorial Hospital. The project would … Read more
The City of Charleston’s Office of Public Art invites community members to participate in the prepping, priming, and painting of the mural project at 517 Elizabeth Street. The mural is a joint effort by West Virginia native and muralist Zulu Painter, the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority (CURA), the City of Charleston’s Office of Public Art, … Read more
Putnam County deputies are requesting information from the public to help in an investigation after someone vandalized property at the county’s fairgrounds. The sheriff’s office said Friday in a Facebook post that someone vandalized and defaced some of the property at the Putnam County Fairgrounds in Eleanor. Volunteers had been working on the area to … Read more
A public comment hearing has been scheduled in a case affecting the future of three coal-fired power plants in West Virginia. The state Public Service Commission originally scheduled an evidentiary hearing Sept. 24 to consider a request to have state residents pay for upgrades at the John Amos, Mountaineer and Mitchell plants in Putnam, Mason … Read more
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train Saturday in Charleston, Metro 911 said. The incident was reported about 12:45 p.m. in the 1200 block of MacCorkle Avenue, just past the Southside Bridge. Charleston police are investigating.
At around 10:30 a.m. Friday morning in northeast West Virginia an eyewitness in Sutton saw a very bright silver light pass across the sky. At the same, an eyewitness contacted Eyewitness News saying she was driving south from Pennsylvania into West Virginia and thought she saw a shooting star streak to the east across the … Read more
State road officials said they are now accepting bids for a reconstruction and repaving project on a portion of MacCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City. The project will focus on putting down a new road surface, making the sidewalks ADA compliant and adding proper drainage from 33rd Street to 40th Street. The West Virginia Department of … Read more
COVID -related hospitalizations in West Virginia rose to another pandemic record on Saturday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources’ website listed hospitalizations on Saturday at 955 – an increase of 33 patients from the previous record on Friday. There are more than 27-thousand active cases of the virus in the state.
State police are preparing for the largest crowd in Morgantown since 2019. The Mountaineers take on Virginia Tech at noon.