Kanawha Board of Education hears about volunteer reading program
By An official from a literacy group used the example of a high school athlete who could not read his own nickname to impress upon the Kanawha County school board the need for a partnership between...
View ArticleDraft of bike plan available for public comment
By Matt Murphy About 20 people attended a public presentation on the first draft of Charleston's Bicycle Master Plan Thursday night.The plan, which is a blueprint for making Charleston more...
View ArticleOfficial explains Charleston's user fee
By Matt Murphy First enacted in 2004 and raised in 2008, Charleston's city service fee - or user fee, as it's known colloquially - has been one of the more controversial aspects of city...
View ArticleSouth Charleston mayor creates committee to examine city pay scale
By South Charleston Mayor Frank Mullens is appointing a committee of citizens, elected officials and city employees to examine the city's pay scale.Mullens made the announcement during Thursday...
View ArticleKanawha judge OKs removal of collapsed airport hillside material
By Andrea Lannom The collapsed runway extension at Yeager Airport will be stabilized and removed after a Kanawha County judge gave permission for work to begin.Attorneys packed Kanawha County Circuit...
View ArticleCharleston bike lanes delayed until 2016
By Matt Murphy Unless there's a bureaucratic miracle, Charleston's proposed bike lanes along Kanawha Boulevard West won't be built this year.Instead, city officials are now eying the spring of 2016...
View ArticleCommittee recommends interim director for Yeager Airport
By Matt Murphy Yeager Airport's personnel committee voted to recommend Terry Sayre as the airport's new interim executive director during a meeting Monday. The recommendation still needs to be...
View ArticleSt. Albans to dispose of surplus vehicles
By St. Albans City Council has agreed to dispose of several surplus vehicles.Four surplus police vehicles were approved during Monday's meeting for disposition.Ward 8 Councilman Kevin Pennington, who...
View ArticleInside Domestic Violence Court
By Tyler Bell Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series on a pilot program created to address domestic violence in West Virginia.It's a Thursday afternoon in May and the Kanawha County...
View ArticleSpecial meeting planned to address ATV use in Marmet
By Marcus Constantino Marmet City Council members agreed to hold a special meeting Monday in response to residents' concerns about unsafe all-terrain vehicle and golf cart use within the city and also...
View ArticleWest Side board discusses upcoming plans and events
By Laura Haight Members of Charleston Main Streets' West Side board of advisers voiced concerns for the West Side but also discussed project ideas and solutions. The committees shared their project...
View ArticleResidents updated on Fayette oil train cleanup efforts
By Matt Murphy GLEN FERRIS - Only about 10 residents attended an information session at the Glen Ferris Inn regarding the ongoing remediation efforts surrounding February's CSX oil train derailment in...
View ArticleFuture uncertain for Charleston-Huntington bus route
By Lexi Browning HUNTINGTON - A lack of state and federal funding may discontinue bus service that transports approximately 13,000 riders annually between Huntington and Charleston. Members of both...
View ArticleFormer airport director takes post in South Charleston
By Matt Murphy Former Yeager Airport director Rick Atkinson is now South Charleston's city manager.Atkinson's first day was Wednesday.Mayor Frank Mullens said Atkinson was hired after he expressed...
View ArticleCharleston man arrested in weekend stabbing
A Charleston man is charged with battery and malicious wounding after police say he stabbed a man near the Kanawha City Cracker Barrel Saturday evening. Corey Treadwell, 37, allegedly stabbed Joshua...
View ArticleLatest MCHM test results raise more questions
By Ken Ward Jr. Two new findings from the federal government's examination of the January 2014 chemical leak at Freedom Industries raise new questions about the toxicity of MCHM and other materials...
View ArticleLove of learning builds family at Marshall University
By Jake Jarvis The scholarship money is great, but David Hannan said it pales in comparison to the friendships he’s made. “There’s nothing like staying up until 3 in the morning having some deep...
View ArticleSchools cool parents' concerns over hot classrooms
By Megan Kennedy As Kanawha County parents geared up this past week to pack their kids off for another school year, some might have had concerns about summertime temperatures in their school...
View ArticleLyme disease declared endemic in Kanawha County
By Lydia Nuzum Four West Virginia counties, including Kanawha, have been newly declared endemic for Lyme disease, and in all, 11 counties have deer ticks that carry the illness, according to the...
View ArticleWVU board OKs Tech move
By Samuel Speciale The West Virginia University Board of Governors on Tuesday unanimously approved a proposal to relocate the school's Institute of Technology from Montgomery to a new satellite campus...
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