More rain is one the way later today…Heavy rain caused problems overnight. A man and child were rescued from a vehicle on South Pinch Road, water was over the tires. And a tree fell down on Kanawha boulevard East near the Belle exit.
Dunbar City Council voted Thursday not to open the city’s public pool this year. The city said on its Facebook page that they’ve not been able to secure the number of Life Savers and Managers to run the pool safely.
State officials have made it a little easier to schedule an appointment at West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles offices. The DMV has unveiled a new hotline to make appointments to take driver’s license tests, make changes to identification cards or driver’s licenses and obtain an identification card. The hotline, which can be reached at … Read more
South Charleston Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver of a pickup truck involved in a crash Wednesday morning at the Southridge Walmart, which caused a power outage in the store. Police said the truck struck a transformer and left the scene going toward the Trace Fork Road area. The truck is … Read more
The Kanawha County Public Library is transitioning into the Town Center mall during its massive renovations downtown. Movers have been putting together shelves and stocking them with hundreds of books inside the library’s new, temporary home across from Talbot’s on the second floor. More than 70% of the library’s inventory will be put away in … Read more
The City of Charleston’s Parks and Recreation Department is offering free morning yoga classes beginning next week on Magic Island. Social distancing will be enforced, and the classes will be limited to 25 people.
Spirit Airlines will resume seasonal service from Yeager Airport to Myrtle Beach in July. Airport officials say passenger traffic is up after record lows in April, but it could take up to two years for the airport to get back to normal.
There are more than thirty new cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, bringing the total to nearly 19-hundred. The death toll remains at 74. The positive test rat is just over two-percent.
The number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in Randolph County. More than one-hundred inmates and staff members have tested positive for the virus. Governor Justice is pledging to test inmates and staff at all West Virginia corrections facilities
The Walmart at Southridge Center is open this morning, after being closed most of the day yesterday. A truck slammed into a power pole and knocked out a transformer, and the store lost power. Police are still looking for the driver.