By Riley McCoyFor The Register-Herald Beckley — Five Supreme Court candidates hope to convince voters through different measures of merit and views on rights, restraint and public trust. The upcoming May 12 special election will decide who fills the late Justice Tim Armstead’s seat on the Supreme Court of Appeals[Read More…]

By Dylan VidovichFor HDMedia Logan — For the first time in nearly two decades, downtown Logan has a music store. On April 1, the Logan County shop, 10 House Music, held a ribbon cutting at the former home of the Coney Island Restaurant and, more recently, the Stratton Street Bookstore. The store[Read More…]

By Eric CraveyFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — After more than a quarter century at the corner of Quincy Street and Ogden Avenue in Fairmont, the Times West Virginian is placing its property for sale as we relocate to a new space on Adams Street later this year. Due to[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bramwell — An intergalactic visitor reported missing from the Hatfield-McCoy Trail in Mercer County has been found. An eight-foot tall metal alien, who was placed along the ATV trail system in Mercer County as a fun distraction for riders, later disappeared from the trail,[Read More…]

By Brad JohnsonFor The Inter-Mountain Pocahontas — A pair of state record trout have been caught in our area recently as the spring fishing season begins. John Terry, of Gallagher, caught the new state record for tiger trout on March 19 from Seneca Lake in Pocahontas County, the state Division[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia The West Virginia Department of Transportation on Monday, announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a grant in the amount of $65 million, part of which will be used to replace the Dunbar Toll Bridge. The grant, part of which will also be used[Read More…]

By Evan BevinsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg – The ceremonial planting of a yellow poplar tree Friday in City Park served to observe Arbor Day and cap off a week of additions to Parkersburg’s urban forest. The city received a $13,554 grant from the West Virginia Division of[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia With the primary election in West Virginia just more than a month away, candidates for Charleston At-Large City Council gathered at the Clay Center’s Walker Theater on Wednesday to discuss their visions for the city’s future. Hosted by Charleston Urban Works, in partnership with WCHS-TV and Fox Appalachia, the “Capital[Read More…]

By Staff ReportsFor HDMedia With the Artemis II crew circling the moon and headed back to Earth, another perspective of space now graces an interior wall of a West Side nonprofit. On Wednesday, at the new headquarters of Legal Aid of West Virginia in the Elk City neighborhood of Charleston’s West Side,[Read More…]

tate leaders say improving access to daycare is essential to filling jobs and supporting business growth By Joselyn KingFor The Intelligencer Wheeling — West Virginia needs more support for childcare development programs before jobs and economic development can occur in the state, according to Secretary of State Kris Warner. He[Read More…]