By Eric CraveyFor The Register-Herald Beckley — Four years of hard work paid off July 4 for 17-year-old Montana Parks and her male market lamb Beast. Beast earned Grand Champion honors in the senior division of the lamb showmanship competition at the first-ever Raleigh County Fair held July 3-5 at[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Parkersburg — As Peoples Cartage Warehouse burned over the weekend, motorists and local residents collected on the side of Camden Avenue in Parkersburg to watch. Smoke billowed into the sky. But despite the sight, many took it as a fact of life where Dupont and[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia The IRS has filed federal tax lien notices against two businesses belonging to Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., reporting more than $3.6 million in unpaid assessments and extending the Justice family business empire’s long record of unmet tax obligations. The lien notices filed Thursday with the Greenbrier[Read More…]

By Jim BissettFor The Dominion Post Buckhannon – To boldly go. SpaceTrek, the program that encourages interstellar careers for girls and young women across Appalachia, is getting ready to gather for a second summer in West Virginia. The 2026 edition launches Sunday on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College[Read More…]

By: Mountain Media, LLCFor: Moorefield Examiner Most people use the phrase “a walk in the park” to refer to an easy task to complete. As Mike Crites, Executive Director of Hardy County Committee on Aging explains, for some seniors in the area, a walk in area parks can become an[Read More…]

By: Jim BissettFor: The Dominion Post Morgantown – Jenny Secreto retired last year as an English teacher at Morgantown High School, but she’s still recommending books for people to read.  One of them is “American Heroes,” by James Patterson, the prolific bestselling author mainly known for his mystery novels –[Read More…]

By: Charles OwensFor: Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — A mascot has been selected and registration will soon begin for Bluefield’s new Esports program. A project of the new Boys and Girls Clubs of the Greater Bluefield, the Esports center is currently being developed at the former arcade area of the[Read More…]

By: Evan BevinsFor: Parkersburg News and Sentinel Parkersburg – A fire at a warehouse complex early Sunday morning sent a thick plume of black smoke into the air all day long, forcing firefighters from Wood County and beyond into what looks to be a long operation to safely extinguish it.[Read More…]

By Mike TonyFor HDMedia The Greenbrier’s casino was hours away from going dark. Even after narrowly avoiding that fate, its future may still not be bright. The West Virginia Lottery Commission tried to guard against that possibility Tuesday afternoon by intervening with an emergency meeting via phone conference to renew[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia Triton Construction of St. Albans has been awarded a $74.5 million contract to complete the rehabilitation of one of the state’s most heavily used highway structures, Charleston’s 51-year-old Fort Hill Interstate 64 bridge, the state Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday. Work on the six-lane span,[Read More…]