WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Hatfield McCoy Regional Recreation Authority has suspended trail development at East Lynn area of Wayne County. The Authority is a public corporation and instrumentality of government set up to manage off-road trails in southern West Virginia, better known as the Hatfield-McCoy Trail System.[Read More…]

By Jim Bissett, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Morgantown area businesses recognized by West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner on the day after Labor Day have lots of stories to tell – and never mind that two of them happen to be newspapers. In a Tuesday morning ceremony[Read More…]

By David Kirk, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-1, wants to find the root cause of the opioid epidemic that is ravaging the state of West Virginia, and to do so, he met with several officials Tuesday. According to the Centers for Disease Control and[Read More…]

By Caity Coyne, The Herald Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Over the past year, West Virginia harm reduction activists and organizers have faced hurdle after hurdle as more people suffer fatal overdoses or get sick from injecting drugs, and while the state and localities pass legislation against services that could help[Read More…]

By Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seven applicants are asking West Virginia’s new state-level charter school board to allow them to open, according to the board’s chairman. Chairman Adam Kissel wrote in an email that three statewide online schools serving grades K-12 and four brick-and-mortar ones serving a[Read More…]

Visiting focusing on outdoor recreation opportunities and new national park BECKLEY, W.Va. – Leaders of the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority and its West Virginia Hive Network are hosting Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Federal Co-Chair Gayle Manchin from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at several locations[Read More…]

By Matt Harvey, The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona recently praised the state’s efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to as many schoolchildren ages 12 and up as possible. While West Virginia doesn’t mandate COVID-19 vaccinations among students, staff and faculty, it has required[Read More…]

By Greg Jordan, Princeton Times BRAMWELL, W.Va. — A photographer’s efforts and an historical interpreter’s research have come together to create a new book that describes a small town enriched by the history of residents who became coalfield millionaires and built the homes to prove it. “Bramwell’s Golden Years: The Homes[Read More…]

By J. Damon Cain, The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice struck a dire tone in his Monday pandemic press briefing, first reading through a list of 24 West Virginians who had died from Covid complications over the weekend and then, after pleading for people to get vaccinated and[Read More…]