News Staff Kanawha County School officials say Kenna Elementary and Riverside High School could reopen on Monday after being closed due to air condition issues. The temperature in some classrooms got into the upper 80s. Officials say with the heat index over one-hundred; the old units can’t keep up. Kanawha County will upgrade almost thirty HVAC units … Read more
The CDC is now recommending that adults with compromised immune systems get a COVID-19 booster shot. This comes one day after the FDA granted emergency approval of a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. A booster will be given to people who do not produce an adequate immune response after receiving two doses … Read more
Governor Justice says he does not see the need right now to declare a mask mandate, but he might in the future, if COVID-19 numbers continue to climb. More than three-hundred West Virginians are in the hospital with COVID, and more than one-hundred are in ICU. DHHR is reporting over two-hundred-forty new cases of the … Read more
A second man is under arrest in connection to a woman’s death in Kingwood. Forty-two-year-old Corey Cuppett admitted that was inside the house when Stephanie Weis was shot, and he knew she was dead before he left. Another man, David Wilhelm, is under arrest for shooting and killing Weis last weekend. He told officer she … Read more
Charleston police are investigating after a man was found dead in a motel early Friday morning. It was initially called in as a shooting, but investigators believe the man died from an overdose.
There are new details about that fatal mining accident in Randolph County earlier this week. Fifty-three-year-old Timothy Collins was standing outside of a loaded coal truck when it started to roll forward toward a ravine. He tried to climb into the truck to stop it, but he slipped and fell under the truck and died … Read more
The latest Census figures are out and Kanawha County’s population dropped by more than 12-thousand over the past ten years. West Virginia saw the largest population decline in the country. The state has lost more than 60-thousand people in the past ten years. West Virginia is one of seven states that will lose a congressional … Read more
Viatris is interested in transferring its idled pharmaceutical production plant to WVU. The company is in discussions with the university on a deal that would give the school future ownership of the plant by the end of the year. Governor Justice says WVU will work with the state to bring new business to the plant.
The ACLU of West Virginia is filing a lawsuit calling West Virginia’s transgender birth certificate policies are unconstitutional. The ACLU wants transgender people to have the ability to correct the gender markers on their birth certificates and have confidentiality when changing them.
A Kanawha County judge is denying a temporary restraining order in connection to a lawsuit over West Virginia’s termination of unemployment benefits. Two West Virginia women are asking for their unemployment benefits to be reinstated after they were terminated early when the state ended the three-hundred-dollar-per-week American Rescue Plan.