By Brett DunlapFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg – West Virginia will be leading the nation’s energy independence, Gov. Patrick Morrisey told a group of community leaders Thursday in Parkersburg. The governor was at the Wood County Resiliency Center for a ceremonial signing of the Strategic and Critical Resources[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Princeton — Work is expected to get underway next week on a $21 million rehabilitation project at the Brush Creek No. 15 dam in Mercer County, which is more commonly known as Dan Hale Reservoir. State officials will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the[Read More…]

By Eric AyresFor The Intelligencer Wheeling – Community leaders gathered at the Wheeling Fire Department headquarters on Wednesday for the blessing of the new Safe Haven Baby Box in East Wheeling. If a new mother makes the difficult decision that she cannot properly care for her baby, the box offers[Read More…]

By Jim RossFor HDMedia Point Pleasant — The first phase of the Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant should be in operation early next year with 700 people working there, the project’s supervisor said Wednesday. The data center and gas-fired power plant along W.Va. 62 near the Camp Conley community[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Princeton — Efforts to reopen a county clinic that provided low-cost spaying and neutering for local pet owners are ongoing. Furever Fixed, Inc., which opened in October 2024 off Shelter Road near the Mercer County Animal Shelter, was temporarily closed back in February because[Read More…]

By Charles Owens For Bluefield Daily Telegraph Princeton — A crowd of onlookers watched Tuesday as a bulldozer tore into a former laundry building on the campus of WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital to help make way for a new comprehensive cancer care center for the region. The demolition work[Read More…]

By Riley McCoyFor The Register-Herald Beckley — A former Beckley Police officer seeks more than $100,000 in back pay in a lawsuit filed in Raleigh County Circuit Court. The 22-page suit filed March 17 by Charleston-based attorney D. Adrian Hoosier II claims Alyssa Christian Redden faced wrongful termination, gender discrimination[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — The country fought an unpopular war overseas while protests and civil unrest took place on a regular basis. Meanwhile, a lone vessel from Earth cut itself off from human contact on the far side of the moon for 40 minutes. The year[Read More…]

By Riley McCoyFor The Register-Herald Beckley — Sunshine reflected through downtown Beckley as residents gathered Monday to remember the miners who lost their lives at the Upper Big Branch mine. The ceremony drew over 50 attendees to the Miners Memorial Garden near Shoemaker Square, adjacent to the Raleigh County Courthouse.[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Matoaka — Approximately $2 million in federal funding is now in place for a regional sewer project in Mercer County that will serve several communities in need. The regional system as currently proposed has the potential to serve between 1,800 to 2,000 customers in[Read More…]