By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — Work should be getting underway soon on a number of planned additions to city park in Bluefield. The Bluefield Board of Directors approved bids Tuesday for several of those projects, including a new turf for the splash pad and an expanded walking[Read More…]

By Abby AyesFor The Parthenon The Choice to Stay In West Virginia, the question isn’t just why people leave, it’s why some never do. For every student packing up their apartment in Huntington or Morgantown with plans to start somewhere new, there’s someone else choosing to stay, not because they[Read More…]

By Joselyn KingFor The Intelligencer Wheeling – Crittenton Services in Wheeling is building room to house more pregnant teens and young women with babies. On Thursday, ground was broken for the construction of two cottage-style homes near Crittenton’s main office in Elm Grove. The first sits on Wade Avenue above[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — White Hall resident Vicki DeWitt saw her bill from Hope Gas double. The culprit was the weather normalization adjustment fee Hope Gas began to pilot last year. However, what galls DeWitt is Hope Gas already seems to have a program that takes[Read More…]

By Benjamin PowellFor The Dominion Post Morgantown — What began as a retirement plan has grown into one of West Virginia’s most recognized small businesses. Andrew Pintus III, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former sheriff’s deputy, is the owner of Blue Mountain K-9 in Morgantown, recently named West Virginia’s[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia At exactly 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, David Adkins, a precinct commissioner for primary election voting at Ruthlawn Elementary in South Charleston, stepped outside the school building and yelled to no one, “Polls are open!” Adkins said a vocal announcement that polls are open at 6:30 a.m.,[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – In a closed Republican primary, GOP voters gave U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito their seal of approval Tuesday night to seek a third six-year term, while voters in the Democratic primary endorsed the campaign of Morgantown community organizer Rachel[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — The first “Bluefield in Bloom” spring festival will be held Friday, a gathering that organizers hope will become an annual event. It will feature live music, food truck vendors, bounce houses, activities for children and other events. The festival will begin at[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and his family have moved to put on hold a case pressed by an international hotel chain affiliate looking to take over their debt-ridden Greenbrier resort network of firms, arguing the takeover bid is rooted in an invalid purchase of their nine-figure[Read More…]

By Andrew SpellmanThe Spirit of Jefferson New information has been received that the money funded for local political attack ads by the group Citizens for Better Communities has ties to Gov. Patrick Morrisey and West Virginia Senate President Randy Smith. The ads, which have been dispersed between physical mailers, robocalls[Read More…]