Gage VotaFor The Intelligencer An online auction of Oglebay Park Resort and Wilson Lodge’s surplus items will take place at Joerpyleauctions.com at 6 p.m. today. Auctioneer John Powell said that because Oglebay is a public entity it isn’t able to just give any vehicles away. “They have to dispose of[Read More…]

By Amber PhippsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel WILLIAMSTOWN – The holidays are a time of giving, spending time with loved ones, eating delicious food, and for some people – lots of driving. As the holidays come to a close and families return to their hometowns to ring in the New[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail Editor’s note: This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a Gazette-Mail series on drinking water quality in West Virginia. Jamie Jacobs and her husband split time between Morgantown and the Canaan Valley. They planned a move to the latter full-time. “[Then][Read More…]

By Tara WyattBluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — Santa Claus visited WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital on Friday, Dec. 19 to celebrate the first Christmas with some of the area’s youngest residents born at the hospital in 2025. The first “Baby’s First Christmas” event was created by the hospital’s Women’s Center,[Read More…]

By David BeardThe Dominion Post MORGANTOWN (TNS) — FirstEnergy sisters Mon Power and Potomac Edison on Monday filed notice with the Public Service Commission that they will be filing an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for their planned new combined cycle gas plant. The notice is[Read More…]

By Ashley PerlamCharleston Gazette-Mail When Connie Hinman decorates her house for Christmas, she sets up about a half dozen Nativity sets. But when Hinman sets up her Nativities From Around the World exhibit at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Charleston, she has a team of[Read More…]

By Greg JordanFor The Register-Herald BECKLEY — Bells will be ringing today as volunteers stand next to red Salvation Army kettles, greeting shoppers, reminding them of the less fortunate, and encouraging donations to ensure a Merry Christmas and a happier New Year. Today is Christmas Eve and the final day[Read More…]

By Charles OwensBluefield Daily Telegraph BRAMWELL — While it has only been open since October, both West Virginia and Virginia are already benefitting from a new ATV connector route. The connector route, which is a part of the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system in Mercer County, allows trail riders to connect with[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezTimes West Virginian FAIRMONT — Woodlawn Cemetery will expand its role in cultural tourism next year by adding a museum. “We’re in the last phase of renovating the superintendent’s house,” Woodlawn Board President Raymond Alvarez said. “We’re trying to create a museum for the history of Fairmont and[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail West Virginia is the country’s fifth-largest energy producer, but federal funding critical to ensuring a productive energy future for the state has flatlined even amid critical infra-structure needs that threat-en its place as a power provider. That’s the combined takeaway from two new reports that warn[Read More…]