By Rick SteelhammerCharleston Gazette-Mail Twenty years ago, when Jeffrey Lusk became the first executive director of the Hatfield McCoy Regional Recreation Authority, the Hatfield-McCoy Trails network consisted of five trail systems offering motorizedtrail riders a total of 400 miles of trail in four Southern West Virginia counties. By the time[Read More…]

Staff reportsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — State funding was announced Friday for four ongoing water and sewer projects in the region. * Union Williams Public Service District was awarded $474,508 through the WVWDA to provide wastewater treatment plant and collection system upgrades. The primary project area is Waverly[Read More…]

By Evan BevinsThe Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON — State employees will get a raise in the Fiscal Year 2027 budget, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Thursday. “We will have a pay raise for state employees, period,” he said during a press conference at the Capitol. “That’s going to[Read More…]

By Joselyn KingThe Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito didn’t expect either of two competing health care reform bills rejected in the Senate on Thursday to pass, but she does see a temporary stop-gap measure being approved next week before Congress goes on holiday break.[Read More…]

By Tabitha Johnston The Journal SHEPHERDSTOWN — Over his 21 years of portraying Santa Claus at Christmas events throughout Shepherdstown, Mark “Jimmy” Crain has never lost his love for the holiday season. Even, in spite of the difficulties that can arise while playing the role. “There’s this age — maybe[Read More…]

By Mike TonyCharleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON — Next week will mark 10 months and six months since flood events devastated Southern West Virginia and Northern West Virginia, respectively, prompting federal disaster declarations and leaving a combined 12 people dead. West Virginia officials counted steep costs beyond the incalculable loss of life[Read More…]

West Virginia Daily News CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WVDN) – U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, a military police officer with the 863rd Military Police Company, West Virginia Army National Guard, was laid to rest with full military honors during a ceremony and interment Tuesday at the West Virginia National Cemetery in Grafton,[Read More…]

By Jim Bissett The Dominion Post FAIRMONT – Mangia, mangia.  And Buon Natale, too. It’s once again time for the Feast of the Seven Fishes Festival in Fairmont. The 2025 edition of the gathering that celebrates the Calabrese-Italian roots of this Marion County city and region commences Friday and Saturday[Read More…]

By Mike Tony Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON — Pete Hollis told West Virginia decisionmakers of artificial intelligence driving “an insatiable desire for power generation” that has “been across the board in every country across the world.” West Virginians, meanwhile, are telling state decisionmakers they desire the power to have their communities[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezTimes West Virginian FAIRMONT — Graduate degrees for nursing students will be much harder to obtain in West Virginia due to a change the Trump administration made to a list defining which professional programs are eligible for student loans. “We know that first-generation students, students growing up in[Read More…]