West Virginia farmers are bracing for impact after the USDA announced more than a billion dollars’ worth of cuts this week, ...

The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) has proposed treating more than 17,000 acres of forest land in the state, ...

Both houses of the West Virginia legislature have passed bills that aim to introduce harsher criminal penalties for selling ...

A Raleigh County man died in a car accident in Fayette County. According to a press release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, 55-year-old Andrew Appel ...

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has signed a bill into law that defines men and women based on biological sex. Senate Bill 456 was introduced to amend the ...

Fish fries are, of course, very important yearly fundraisers for churches, VFWs, fire halls and more. But the fish fry also means community building, catching up with old friends and honoring ...

Five Black voters, along with the Fayette-Somerville Branch of the NAACP, are challenging what they allege is a racially discriminatory electoral map in the county, claiming it violates both the ...

(The Center Square) – West Virginia State senators have introduced two bills targeting harm reduction in the state. The proposed legislation would make on-site methadone treatment programs illegal as ...

Road projects are starting to blossom as we head into spring, but progress the Mon-Fayette Expressway project has hardly let up through the winter.

To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Feb. 23, 1867: Lincoln County was formed from Boone, Cabell, Kanawha and Putnam counties. The county was named ...

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, a group of gravediggers working in a cemetery ... the bridge collapse was the second terrible and bizarre thing to put Point Pleasant on the map in a ...