By Eric Ayres, The Intelligencer WHEELING — Representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency are in flood-ravaged areas of Ohio County gathering information for preliminary damage assessments as the area awaits a federal disaster declaration from the president. Local officials held a flood recovery update on Monday in Wheeling to[Read More…]

By Cameron Maynard, Coal Valley News MADISON, W.Va. — Boone County Circuit Court Judge Stacy Nowicki-Eldridge was recently named Judge of the Year by the WV Association for Justice, and it’s an honor she says she was overwhelmed by. Not only overwhelmed, but also a little speechless, which she said[Read More…]

By Olivia Haught, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An extreme heat warning has been issued for most of West Virginia from noon Sunday through Wednesday evening. Expect dangerously hot conditions with heat index values topping 100 degrees. Heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high humidity events. This could[Read More…]

By Cassidy Roark for The Intelligencer WHEELING, W.Va. — As flooding surged across parts of West Virginia nine days ago, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources deployed one of its crucial and highly trained emergency tools, the Swift Water Rescue units. Sergeant Dennis Feazell, the DNR’s statewide Swift Water[Read More…]

By David Beard, The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN – A $9 million federal grant to the state Economic Development Department recently got DOGE’d. But the department and Gov. Patrick Morrisey both failed to answer questions about it. The $9,011,588 grant came from the U.S Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — Lawmakers are spending the next three days in Central and North Central West Virginia for June legislative interim meetings, on Sunday receiving reports from state tourism and economic development officials. Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Government Organization[Read More…]

By Toni Milbourne, The Journal MARTINSBURG – After a week of preliminary contests, dance routine practices and spending time together as a group of like-minded “sisters,” Saturday evening arrived, and the final selections were made to crown Miss West Virginia and West Virginia’s Teen 2025. A portion of the evening’s[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Nineteen. That’s how many homes near Johnson Road, in Kanawha County, Eric Hanson said lose their power several times a year, though not from storms. What follows, Hanson said, are long outages to which he is especially vulnerable as the user of[Read More…]

By Bruce Justice, Mingo Messenger Since first becoming fully operational in late 2022 and early 2023 under Coalfield Development’s subsidiary and Mingo County Redevelopment Authority partner — Sprouting Farms — it has been known to most people in Mingo and surrounding areas as the Blue Acre Aquaponics facility situated along[Read More…]

By Joselyn King, The Intelligencer TRIADELPHIA — Last weekend’s flooding in Ohio County has left tired deputies and recovering communities now being targeted by looters, according to Sheriff Nelson Croft. Deputies will now be coming from other West Virginia counties to assist the Ohio County Sheriff’s Department in the coming[Read More…]