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There are seventeen new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, for a total of over 29-hundred. The positive test rate is up slightly to around one-point-seven-percent.

Governor Justice is moving money around to balance the state budget. Most of the money was moved from Medicaid funding to the general budget to cover the nearly 200-million-dollar shortfall. There won’t be any cuts to Medicaid, because of additional money from the federal government.

A Sissonville High School football coach has tested positive for COVID-19. The coach worked with a small group of athletes last week, and those players have been contacted. Practices are canceled for the rest of the week as a precaution.

Starting Sunday, drivers and passengers on KRT buses will be required to wear face masks. If you don’t have one, the driver will give you a free mask. Official say it’s “prudent” to slow down the spread of COVID-19.

A two-year-old Elkview boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself. The boy got ahold of an unsecured pistol in a bedroom of his Deer Run Road home. The boy’s mother and four-year-old sibling were also in the house. An investigation is ongoing.

Residents of a Roane County neighborhood are back in their homes after gas leak. Several houses were evacuated earlier in the day when emergency crews responded to a leak in a nearly one-hundred-year-old gas line on Speed Road. Repairs have been made.

Health officials say missing out on routine appointments like well-visits, annual check ups and immunizations could be dangerous. After months of quarantine, it’s important to get out for routine checkups now. Last year, the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department administered more than 1,600 immunizations, and so far this year, WCHS TV reported they have only given out … Read more

Rules for setting off your own fireworks vary from city to city. In Charleston, an ordinance passed in 2016 sets the rules. It says you can set off fireworks on the Fourth of July from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and not from sidewalks or roads. There is a possible $500 fine for violating the … Read more

While its main location gets a $24 million renovation, the Kanawha County Public Library has temporarily relocated and officially opened in the Charleston Town Center. The renovation includes an enlarged children’s floor, study rooms, meeting spaces, new technology and a covered walkway attached to the Summers Street parking garage in downtown Charleston. Now that the … Read more

Police have identified a West Virginia pedestrian who was hit by a train and died. The man was 30-year old Michael Adam Woodrum of Charleston. Officers were called to the scene early Saturday when the man was hit by a CSX train traveling west southeast of downtown, and he died at the scene. The investigation … Read more