Charleston Elks elect first female ruler
By Lori Kersey For the first time in the club's 125-year history, a woman is serving as head of the Charleston Elks Lodge. Joan Stiltner, 77, was elected Lodge No. 202's exalted ruler and officially...
View ArticleTwo wounded in shooting on city's West Side
By Staff reports Two people were wounded in a shooting Sunday evening on Charleston's West Side, a Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said. Both victims were taken Charleston Area Medical Center...
View ArticleSt. Albans names vice mayor, swears in two new police officers
By By George Hohmann For the Gazette-Mail St. Albans Council elected Ward 7 Councilman Desper Lemon vice mayor on Monday evening, and Mayor Dick Callaway swore in two new police officers. As vice...
View ArticleLecture to revisit golden era of music in Kanawha Valley
By Jared Casto Kanawha County residents can go back to when clubs were full, concerts were plentiful and nationally recognized music acts swarmed the region during "Rocking the Kanawha: The Golden Age...
View ArticleSouth Charleston Sanitary Board truck reportedly stolen
By Staff reports Police are searching for a blue Ford F-150 truck with City of South Charleston plates and no other markings that was reported stolen Tuesday from the city's Sanitary Board. South...
View ArticleFormer Kanawha, Harrison schools superintendent dies
A former superintendent of the public school systems of Kanawha, Randolph and Harrison counties died Monday at 81. Robert Earl Kittle died at a Bridgeport nursing home after a long illness, according...
View ArticleKanawha foundation CEO 'energized' about community effort
By Jared Casto Michelle Foster, president and CEO of the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, gave her first address to the community during the foundation's 15th annual report Tuesday evening in the...
View ArticleEmergency funds approved to fix Cedar Grove sewage pump
By Jennifer Gardner Cedar Grove will receive $31,000 in emergency funding from the Kanawha County Commission to repair and rebuild a pump station spewing raw sewage in the Kellys Creek area. County...
View ArticleACLU requests information from county clerks on online voter registration
By Kate White The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia filed requests this week with the clerks of Cabell and Kanawha counties for information about their handling of the online voter...
View ArticleNitro council seeking more information on apartments plan
By Ryan Quinn Nitro City Council voted Tuesday against allowing the owner of the Tudor's Biscuit World and Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti House chains to turn a motel into apartments, but council members...
View ArticleCharleston Capitol, Best Western hotels get new owners, again
By Elaina Sauber Just weeks after two Charleston hotels were sold at a foreclosure sale, the group that managed the hotels before the foreclosure has bought them and plans to complete a...
View ArticleAfter struggle for funding, donor pulls through for Schoenbaum Field
By Daniel Desrochers The Kanawha County Parks Commission had searched everywhere to find funding to resurface the turf at Schoenbaum Field. Parks board president Allen Tackett had been turned away by...
View ArticleCorps of Engineers offering tours of Marmet Locks and Dam
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is offering public tours at the Marmet Locks and Dam in Belle, West Virginia on June 4 in observation of National Dam Safety Awareness Day....
View ArticleCharleston falls below 50,000 residents for first time since 1920
By Elaina Sauber West Virginia no longer has a city with more than 50,000 residents. U.S. Census 2015 estimates released Thursday show Charleston dipped below the threshold last year. The state's...
View ArticleKanawha health department mulling food-handler cards
By Lydia Nuzum Restaurant workers in Kanawha and Putnam counties would have to get food-handler cards under a proposal put up for public comment by the Kanawha-Charleston Board of Health on Thursday....
View ArticleHearing to decide ethics charges against Plants begins
By Kate White As he testified about the events of the past three years Thursday, ex-Kanawha County prosecuting attorney Mark Plants appeared frustrated. "Do you believe contact with your children and...
View ArticleSouth Charleston moves to rezone parcel for commercial development
By By George Hohmann For the Gazette-Mail South Charleston Council has given preliminary approval to a rezoning request that would make way for a new commercial development along Jefferson Road....
View ArticleCosts mount for 'temporary' fix to sewer line crushed by Yeager slide
By Rick Steelhammer Residents of Keystone and Barlow drives are not the only folks anxious to see the final 140 feet of debris from Yeager Airport's collapsed runway safety zone removed. There's also...
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