United States Environmental Protection Agency says for the first time, since they started tracking, West Virginia meets all air quality standards. The EPA also awarded a 24-million-dollar clean water grant to the state. It provides loan interest loans for the construction of waste water treatment facilities, storm water and estuary projects.
Governor Justice is allocation 25-million-dollars in CARES Act funding to help pay utility bills. The money will go to people who have experienced economic hardship because of the pandemic, and fell behind on electric, natural gas, water and sewer bills from March 1 through July 31. The money will go to local public service districts … Read more
Frontier crews are working to restore phone and internet service after more than two-thousand pairs of copper wire were stolen in Hurricane. The phones have been out at City Hall for several days. The copper wire is worth about five-thousand-dollars. No arrests have been made.
Huntington police are investigating after two people were stabbed on Sixth Avenue. Both victims suffered non-life threatening injuries. A third person of interest was arrested on unrelated warrants.
A Detroit man is under arrest for shooting at parked cars along Sixth Avenue in Huntington. A woman was sitting in one of the cars, but she wasn’t hurt. Thirty-seven-year-old Darryl Hill is charged with wanton endangerment and several counts of destruction of property.
Long lines stretched around the block outside the Kanawha County Voter Registration Office as voters turned out in large numbers for the first day of early voting. Almost 18-hundred people cast their ballots.
Wyoming County for a third straight day remained as the only county in red on West Virginia’s alert map, while Putnam stayed in green and Kanawha and Cabell in yellow. The latest map from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources shows Wayne and Mingo counties in orange, and Boone, Jackson, and Clay … Read more
Charleston-area residents can turn in their unused or expired prescription medication this weekend for National Drug Take Back Day. The Charleston Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be accepting the medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at six different locations Saturday, including Walgreens at 655 Washington Street West, and the Drug Emporium … Read more
Several agencies will come together to host a kids’ flu vaccine clinic this weekend at Charleston Area Medical Center Women and Children’s Hospital. The clinic is set for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, in the parking lot in front of the Ronald McDonald House. Pediatricians and medical personnel will administer the … Read more
A convicted felon was charged after Raleigh County deputies said drugs with an estimated street value of $250,000, several firearms and a large quantity of ammunition were discovered. Jamal Johnson of Beckley was charged in the case. The Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office said officers served a search warrant in the Beckley Junction area and found … Read more