By Jim BissettFor The Dominion Post Fairmont – Merchant Street on Fairmont’s East Side is a pretty percolating place these days. The bustling commercial strip is right down from the Interstate 79 and the city’s Gateway Connector, and come June 2, it will be percolating even more. Just ask Taylor[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia Clay — A railbed over which the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad once “shipped the coal that helped the United States reach its highest industrial heights” in the early 20th century is now supporting a new wave of development in West Virginia in the form of tourism,[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — The countdown to the start of the 2026 Cole Chevy Mountain Festival is now underway. Crews with the James H. Drew Carnival will be setting up their massive display at city park in Bluefield this week in advance of Friday’s opening of[Read More…]

By Kim NorthFor The Intelligencer Wheeling — Nailers fever is spreading quickly throughout the Ohio Valley, and it’s a condition local hockey fans hope sticks around a while longer. The Wheeling Nailers have reached the ECHL Kelly Cup Eastern Conference Finals, beginning a best-of-seven series Friday night against the Florida[Read More…]

By Mike Tony For HDMedia The teetering business empire of Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., faces a new legal challenge responding to one of its units reporting a systematic failure that has cast doubt over more than two years of patient health assessments. The Greenbrier Clinic, a self-billed, all-inclusive medical services[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — The problem with data centers, according to the state Data Economy Office, hasn’t been water, noise, pollution or energy prices. The problem has been communication. “I’ll fall on the sword and tell you, when you’re running around and you have 100 top[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia The Capitol Complex in Charleston received a new addition Thursday as crane operators lowered a 100,000-pound fireless steam locomotive into a nearly complete outdoor exhibit between the Governor’s Mansion and the Culture Center. Greenbrier Street has been closed since Wednesday morning in preparation for the machine’s[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Anticipation is building for next week’s arrival of a unique Freedom 250 exhibit in Bluefield. The Freedom 250 Truck, a massive interactive traveling museum that celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, will arrive in Bluefield on Friday, May 29, as part of the Cole[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia For more than two decades, FestivALL has welcomed the return of warm summer weather by turning Charleston into a citywide celebration of art and entertainment. Now set to return for its 22nd year, FestivALL is bringing back some familiar favorites and creating new events to help create lasting[Read More…]

By Jim BissettFor The Dominion Post Morgantown – Pepperoni rolls and Mothman have their place in the hillbilly pantheon of Mountain State history, but West Virginia and its origins – as the latest Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe can attest – is way more telling. The Golden Horseshoe[Read More…]