News Staff Preliminary data in the investigation into an HIV outbreak in Kanawha County shows there is a high use of emergency department and inpatient services among people who inject drugs, but there is a lack of HIV testing. The CDC has been in Charleston examining potential causes of the outbreak.
Tourism and economic development are the big winners from Thursday’s special session. Lawmakers approved the allocation of 250-million-dollars in budget surplus for various projects. The state will spend over 40-million-dollars on state park improvement projects and expanding the Elk River Trail. Forty-eight-million-dollars will go to local schools for improvement projects and building upgrades.
COVID-19 Czar, Dr. Clay Marsh, says new data shows over 98-percent of COVID-19 deaths are people who have not been vaccinated. He says it “demonstrates the incredible potency and effectiveness of the vaccines.”
Thomas Health is marking its first day in more than a year with no new COVID-19 patients. The health system has had at least one COVID-19 positive patient for over four-hundred-fifty days. The first positive case was diagnosed on March 28, 2020.
I-64 is open this morning, after the interstate was shut down for more than six hour last night. An 18-wheeler rolled over in West Huntington, sending more than fifty cows onto the road. The driver escaped with minor injuries. Four cows died and six are still missing.
Firefighters from five different departments responded to a fire at the Save-A-Lot grocery store in Kenova. Damage to the building is extensive. No one was hurt. The building was empty when the fire started.
Huntington is getting $50,000 that it will put toward rehabilitating homes. The grant funding for Project SHINE will bring improvements to nearly 90 owner-occupied homes this summer with help from one thousand work camp volunteers from across the country. The grant comes from the Claude Benedum Worthington Foundation. Volunteers will work until July 21 and … Read more
SOAR stands for Solutions Oriented Addiction Response and the group used to run a needle exchange program until it was outlawed by the City of Charleston. SOAR volunteers still work toward harm reduction, even without the syringes, and they’re planning an event this Saturday at Magic Island Park to draw attention to their efforts. Organizers … Read more
West Virginia families with eligible school-age children will receive funding from the federal government for groceries this summer. One-time benefits of $375 are expected to be issued for each eligible child by mid-July. The state Department of Education said the benefits will be loaded onto existing pandemic electronic benefits transfer cards that were issued during … Read more
At the beginning of March, Kanawha, Cabell, Wayne and Mingo Counties all experienced significant flooding, and qualified for individual assistance from FEMA. The July 19 application deadline is approaching, and state representaives along with many from FEMA were in Kermit this week helping people get registered. More than sixty people were there looking for help … Read more