Press Release from West Virginia University: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Through the coming weeks, video gamers will be blasting away mutated monsters, exploring nuked country roads and rebuilding America, a noble duty that begins in virtual West Virginia. Fallout 76 is the highly-anticipated prequel to the Fallout video game series slated[Read More…]
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WVU Parkersburg to host transgender awareness training
Press Release from WVU Parkersburg: PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – West Virginia University at Parkersburg will host Dr. Cris Mayo, distinguished scholar in the field of gender studies, on Monday, Nov. 26 for two transgender awareness training sessions. Both trainings, sponsored by WVU Parkersburg’s Social Justice Committee, are free and open to[Read More…]
Berhanu family creates civil engineering endowment at WVU
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Members of Leah Berhanu’s family were looking for a way to honor her legacy of lending a helping hand to those who needed it. They chose to create the Leah Berhanu Financial Rescue Scholarship at West Virginia University, her alma mater. “She appreciated people who[Read More…]
Royalty disputes continue as West Virginia’s natural gas industry booms
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For decades, Arnold and Mary Richards collected monthly royalty checks — most recently from $1,000 to $1,500 — for the natural gas sucked up from beneath their West[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, November 13
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. HOPE DWINDLES IN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES Relatives visit shelters and call police hoping to find loved ones[Read More…]
Veterans Day 2018: “Let us never forget”
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — One hundred years to the day after fighting ceased in The War to End All Wars, World War I, community members gathered at the Raleigh County Veterans Museum on Harper Road to honor and remember those who have served in the armed services of[Read More…]
Collection of late artist Pete Ballard on display at Crab Orchard Museum
By CHARLES BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph TAZEWELL, Va. — A collection of the work of the late Pete Ballard, renowned artist and teacher, is now on display at the Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell, Va. Ballard, a Welch native who had lived in Peterstown for many years before he passed[Read More…]
Eastern Panhandle officials tour plant that will turn solid waste into fuel
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Turning trash into money is no longer a pipe dream. Entsorga West Virginia will start turning tons of solid waste into usable fuel beginning the first quarter of next year, executives said. On a cold and rainy Friday morning, 12 Eastern Panhandle[Read More…]
Embattled West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Loughry resigns
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Days before lawmakers were scheduled to hold another special session to draw up a new article of impeachment, Justice Allen Loughry saved them the trouble and has resigned. Gov. Jim Justice announced Loughry’s resignation Saturday evening, a day[Read More…]