By Eric AyresFor The Intelligencer Wheeling – Officials in the city of Wheeling began preliminary discussions this week about the possibility of permitting golf carts to be used on city streets in the future. Members of the Rules Committee of Wheeling City Council met this week to share ideas about[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia As the nation prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial — otherwise known as “America250,” the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence — officials throughout West Virginia are joining in on the planning to commemorate the momentous occasion. During a news conference with Gov.[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia While Gov. Patrick Morrisey spent his Monday morning touting the efforts of his administration in finding what he called “more than $168 million in potential savings to West Virginia,” outgoing House of Delegates Finance Chair Vernon Criss, R-Wood, and members of his committee scrutinized the work[Read More…]

By Amanda Larch HinchmanFor HDMedia Elkins — One West Virginia folklorist, musician and documentarian has been named a 2026 National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellow, the country’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Nominated by the West Virginia Humanities Council, Gerald “Gerry” Milnes of Elkins, West Virginia,[Read More…]

By Shelley HansonFor The Intelligencer Moundsville — John Marshall High School’s media program, WJMH, has grown from a fledgling broadcasting class using VCRs to a multimedia production program complete with modern equipment, reporting on and televising dozens of events each year. The program, founded by Tony Wood with help from[Read More…]

By Matthew YoungFor HDMedia The Rocket Boys — West Virginia’s most famous amateur rocket builders and the inspiration for the 1999 film October Sky — will be honored at Pipestem Resort State Park Saturday, as part of National Kids to Parks Day. Making up the Big Creek Missile Agency and consisting of members[Read More…]

By Evan BevinsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Belpre – The Relay for Life of Washington County returns to Civitan Park in Belpre Saturday with the theme “Carnival for a Cure.” In addition to the usual Survivor and Caregiver Dinner, music, auction and luminaria, the event will include some carnival[Read More…]

By Esteban FernandezFor Times West Virginian Fairmont — The City of Fairmont is biting its nails over its $10 million Congressional spending request for its $108 million wastewater treatment facility project. “Ten million dollars in the scheme of $108 million may not seem like a significant chunk, but for a[Read More…]

By Steven Allen AdamsFor The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Charleston – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, who easily secured the confidence of registered Republicans in West Virginia to seek a third six-year term, called for unity among West Virginia Republicans heading into the November general elections. During a press call[Read More…]

By Dylan VidovichFor HDMedia The Hatfields and McCoys Historical Society is bringing a free traveling exhibit — opening Friday — to Logan and Mingo counties this month. A wreath-laying ceremony and scholarship announcement is also planned at the Hatfield Family Cemetery on Memorial Day. The nonprofit organization the West Virginia Humanities[Read More…]