By Stephen Santilli for WV News GRAFTON, W.Va. (WV News) – With the sun shining brightly, thousands of people lined the parade route in Grafton for the 158th annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday morning. This year’s theme was Memorial Day: Celebrate, Honor, Remember. The parade serves as the official[Read More…]

By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – A West Virginia lawmaker led the successful push Thursday in the U.S. Senate to block California’s electric vehicle mandate, a rule that could have impacted a third of the country. U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., speaking to West Virginia reporters[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams for The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON – The West Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of two parents Friday seeking to block an executive order by Gov. Patrick Morrisey allowing for religious exemptions to the state school-age immunization program. Attorneys for[Read More…]

By Niamh Coomey, The Intelligencer WHEELING — The Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend presented by WVU Medicine concluded Sunday after two days packed with fitness activities and fun.Sunday kicked off at noon with the annual Tough As Nails Urban Challenge presented by The Health Plan, a challenging race and obstacle course[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As coal piles up at coal plants, cost liabilities mount for electric ratepayers. Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power have announced a $71.6 million fuel cost rate increase effective Sept. 1 following what the American Electric Power subsidiaries reported were losses of $40.5[Read More…]

By Steven Allen Adams for The Intelligencer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” fiscal package is on its way to the U.S. Senate after West Virginia’s delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the bill in an early morning vote Thursday. The House[Read More…]

By Matt Harvey, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia’s Supreme Court has backed a state Public Service Commission ruling impacting the utility that provides water to the maximum security Mount Olive Correctional Center. After the Gauley River Public Service District — which supplies water to Mount[Read More…]

By Katelyn Aluise, The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Scott Robertson was a senior at Wayne High School in 2001, job opportunities in the area were starting to take a downward turn, and as a low-income student whose parents didn’t graduate from college, he didn’t know what his next step[Read More…]

The Hurricane Breeze PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. — On May 9th, Justin Connor of Milton caught a 51.49-inch, 66.30-pound blue catfish on the Kanawha River in Putnam County using a mooneye on 80-pound test line. WVDNR fish culturist Ryan Bosserman, who works at the Apple Grove Fish Hatchery, confirmed Connor’s catch,[Read More…]

The Pocahontas Times CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Pocahontas County Schools’ partnership with Nature’s Mountain Classroom has been named West Virginia’s School-Business Partnership of the Year. The announcement was made at the 2025 West Virginia Education Summit by the Education Alliance and Hope Gas. Pocahontas County Schools was selected as the winner out of 75[Read More…]