The coronavirus has infected 260 inmates at West Virginia’s McDowell County Corrections, by far the largest outbreak at a state prison. The state reported numbers on Tuesday showing six more people were confirmed positive. Gov. Jim Justice said on Monday 28 staff members also were sick. He said the facility was on lockdown, and state … Read more
Kanawha shifted from orange to gold in the latest West Virginia county alert system map, while Putnam and Cabell stayed in orange. The state Department of Health and Human Resources posted the map that showed fifteen counties in orange including Putnam, Cabell, Wayne and Boone. Counties in gold included Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Clay, and … Read more
The Capitol dome will be unveiled by the end of November. The restoration project has reached the point where the protective covering can be removed and it will take a couple more months to remove the scaffolding.
The third annual “State of Lung Cancer” report is out, and West Virginia has the highest adult smoking rate in the country, at more then 25-percent. The number of new lung cancer cases is second worst to Kentucky.
WVU is shifting classes to online starting Monday through the end of the fall semester. Originally classes were supposed to go online after Thanksgiving, but officials moved up the date because of spiking COVID-19 numbers.
There are a record number of West Virginians in the hospital with COVID-19. Four-hundred people are hospitalized, and 116 are in ICU. There are almost 865 new cases of the virus, and thirteen more people have died.
West Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to six-point-four-percent in October. It marks six consecutive months of improving unemployment numbers. There are about 48-thousand people out of work.
Snowshoe is delaying the start of its ski season until December 4th. An unseasonably warm November has made it difficult to make snow.
Twenty-two-year-old Courtney Wallace will spend forty-years in prison for a bizarre St. Albans murder in which the victim was stabbed and sexually assaulted. The judge said he found her actions incomprehensible, and handed down the maximum sentence.
A woman was hit and killed by a CSX train n Jefferson. She was walking on the tracks with her back to the train at Kanawha Terrace and MacCorkle Avenue.