The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man reported missing for several weeks. Christopher Gill is a white male with hazel eyes and brown hair, and was last heard from on Sept. 4 in Cross Lanes. Gill is 6-foot, 2-inches tall and weighs about 220 pounds. Anyone who has seen Gill since Sept. … Read more
Kanawha County school board members voted 3-2 to skip the second week of blended learning next week and to go to five days of instruction for those parents who have chosen that option for their kids. The decision came at a special board meeting on Monday. Under the vote, students will start in-person classes in … Read more
West Virginia’s mental health and addiction helpline has reached some milestones – its fifth anniversary and more than 50,000 people helped by the program. Help4WV was developed in 2015 and gives people going through addiction and recovery several resources for outpatient and inpatient treatment, including transportation. Calls have continued to increase over the years and … Read more
Kanawha County deputies rescued a driver out of a vehicle Tuesday morning after it drove over a hillside in Jefferson. It happened in the 1400 block of Chestnut Street and the vehicle slid down an embankment. When deputies arrived at the scene, the driver had a head injury and wasn’t coherent. The vehicle was against … Read more
A solar generating project in southern West Virginia has cleared a key hurdle. The Public Service Commission issued a final order granting Raleigh Solar a certificate for the construction and operation of a 90-megawatt generating facility in Raleigh County. The commission said it’s the first such certificate issued in West Virginia. The project will consist … Read more
Kanawha County has moved into yellow on West Virginia’s county alert map. The latest map posted on Tuesday (based on data from Monday) shows the color change for the county, which had moved to gold last week after spending weeks in red and then in orange. Kanawha’s positivity test rate has dipped to 3.95% after … Read more
Governor Justice signed an executive order allowing outdoor live music, and some indoor music performances to resume. Indoor performances are limited to 25-percent capacity, or 250 people, whichever is less.
Two more people have died from COVID-19 in West Virginia, and there are over one-hundred new cases of the virus. The state’s “Rt rate” is the second best in the nation. The number is a measurement of how the virus is spreading from person-to-person. West Virginia’s number is point-86. Any number below 1.0 means the … Read more
The West Virginia Education Association is filing a lawsuit challenging the state’s COVID-19 alert map. The union says the map has been altered repeatedly to achieve an end result, and a county can be in the red or green, depending on which method is used.
The Kanawha County Board of Education voted to skip a second week of blended learning, and instead, transition to five days of in-person learning starting October 12th. Around 13-thousand students will return to the classroom.