By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – With the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 36 days away, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby announced new merchandise for West Virginians to buy and called on state communities to ring their[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia Imagination-inspired artwork by nearly 200 students at Charleston’s Edgewood Elementary School is now on display on a series of 30-inch diameter metal discs that spell out “EDGEWOOD” and hang from a tennis court fence at Edgewood Park, at the intersection of Edgewood Drive and Washington Street[Read More…]

By Maj. Gen. Bill Crane, retired guest commentaryFor The Register-Herald National security doesn’t begin at the Pentagon. It begins at the factories and power lines that keep America’s defense industry running. It begins right here in West Virginia. According to the U.S. Department of Defense’s “Defense Spending by State” report,[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia If the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision makes 2026 the last year of competition for Bridgeport High School sophomore Becky Pepper-Jackson, then the 15-year-old transgender athlete made the most of her final season of interscholastic sports in West Virginia. With a personal shot put best of 38 feet,[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — State Sen. Joey Garcia, D-13, owns up to his vote on House Bill 2014. HB 2014 set the rules by which microgrids that power data centers would be regulated, as well as created rules governing how tax money collected from data centers[Read More…]

By Jim BissettFor The Dominion Post Fairmont – Merchant Street on Fairmont’s East Side is a pretty percolating place these days. The bustling commercial strip is right down from the Interstate 79 and the city’s Gateway Connector, and come June 2, it will be percolating even more. Just ask Taylor[Read More…]

By Rick SteelhammerFor HDMedia Clay — A railbed over which the Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad once “shipped the coal that helped the United States reach its highest industrial heights” in the early 20th century is now supporting a new wave of development in West Virginia in the form of tourism,[Read More…]

By Charles OwensFor Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield — The countdown to the start of the 2026 Cole Chevy Mountain Festival is now underway. Crews with the James H. Drew Carnival will be setting up their massive display at city park in Bluefield this week in advance of Friday’s opening of[Read More…]

By Kim NorthFor The Intelligencer Wheeling — Nailers fever is spreading quickly throughout the Ohio Valley, and it’s a condition local hockey fans hope sticks around a while longer. The Wheeling Nailers have reached the ECHL Kelly Cup Eastern Conference Finals, beginning a best-of-seven series Friday night against the Florida[Read More…]

By Mike Tony For HDMedia The teetering business empire of Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., faces a new legal challenge responding to one of its units reporting a systematic failure that has cast doubt over more than two years of patient health assessments. The Greenbrier Clinic, a self-billed, all-inclusive medical services[Read More…]