Proposed activities and programs that the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office will use in 2020-2021 to help preserve the state’s history are available for public review and comment. The proposed Annual Work Program is available online or by writing to the State Historic Preservation Office. The deadline for public comment is Aug. 31. The … Read more
Two fires at homes in Huntington are under investigation after firefighters were called out just hours apart. The first fire was reported at 1 a.m. Monday in the 800 block of Jackson Avenue and everyone inside got out safely. The second fire started around 3:45 a.m. Monday in the 1900 block of Washington Avenue. A … Read more
RISE West Virginia has completed over two-hundred homes. Thirty-five projects are in the active construction phase, and the program still has over two-hundred active cases.
A southern West Virginia town has been without water for days after a pump broke last week. More than five-hundred people in the City of Gary are scrambling to get water. The county approved the purchase of a new water pump, but officials don’t know when it will arrive.
Governor Justice says he thinks there will be a second round of federal stimulus funding. He says more money will be available for people who are still unemployed, and there will be additional funding to make sure schools are safe in the fall.
West Virginia health officials are confirming almost one-hundred-forty new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of active cases to nearly 17-hundred. More than eighty people are in the hospital with the virus, and thirty-five of those are in ICU.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races is laying off move the five-hundred workers beginning August 15th. The casino is blaming the impact from the pandemic for the reduction in force.
More than two dozen people from West Virginia and five other states are under arrest on drug charges. The charges involve distribution of cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and a PCP-laced substance. The U.S. Marshal Service and the West Virginia Air National Guard assisted with the arrests.
A Fayetteville man is under arrest for destroying proper at three homes near Gatewood Road. Deputies found Jacob Cox nude and shouting profanities when he tried to attack the officers. No one was hurt.
A man was hit and killed by a train in the 55-hundred block of Lancaster Avenue. The incident is under investigation.