Union officials confirmed that a total of seven employees at Costellium’s Ravenswood plant have tested positive for COVID-19. The company says it has taken the necessary precautions concerning quarantines and it is following CDC guidelines by disinfecting work areas regularly.
According to an online poll, parents, students, and teachers think it’s best to keep schools closed through the end of the current school year. a West Virginia teacher’s union conduced a social media poll of nearly five-thousand people, and nearly four out of five thought classes should continue online.
Toyota is extending a shutdown until May 4th at all of it’s North American plants. The automaker has a plant in Buffalo, West Virginia, that suspended operations in Mid-March.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is asking you to celebrate Passover and Easter at home to help slow down the spread of COVID-19. Officials encourage you to take part in virtual services and avoid in-person gatherings. There are 75 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Kanawha County. There are more than seventy new cases of the virus … Read more
The Kanawha County Commission unanimously passed a “hero pay” raise for frontline workers earlier this week, and now other local municipalities are calling on the Governor and Legislature to enact a tax holiday for all emergency services workers.
Local nurses can get free gas today. The first two-hundred nurses that show up between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. at Exxon One Stop in Kanawha City will get their tanks topped off, and again tonight between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Exxon One Stop in South Charleston.
More than a dozen WVU students tested positive for the virus. The students returned to off-campus housing, and have not been on campus. Health officials are working to retrace the affected students’ movements. WVU switched to online instruction at the end of March, and there will be no in-person class time until the fall semester … Read more
Marion County joins the list of coronavirus hotspots in West Virginia with more than thirty positive cases. Statewide there are more than 480 cases of COVID-19 and four people have died.
A building at a St. Alban car dealership collapsed during a severe thunderstorm early Thursday morning. Strong winds destroyed the Moses Auto Group’s building on MacCorkle Avenue. No one was hurt.
A coronavirus hotline for West Virginia residents has been fielding thousands of calls from general questions about prevention tips to more specific ones about test availability and workplace safety guidelines. The West Virginia Poison Center operates the state Department of Health and Human Services’ coronavirus hotline (1-800-887-4304). The call center is on WVU’s Charleston Division … Read more