New Cross Lanes cannabidiol company seeing high demand
By Erin Beck No one was wearing tie-dye.During a two-hour span one afternoon this week, it was a rare moment when no customers were inside of Appalachian Cannabis Company, a less than two-week-old...
View ArticleCharleston officials using new WV law to demolish abandoned property
By Ali Schmitz City of Charleston officials including law enforcement officers, firefighters, the City Attorney's office, and the building commissioner's office, have started to take advantage of a...
View ArticleJury sides with GW principal, Kanawha board in defamation case
By Lacie Pierson A 6-person jury determined Friday that a George Washington High School counselor didn't suffer any damage to her reputation or privacy in a series of incidents stemming from the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Mudstock 2017
Live music was on tap Friday night at Mudstock 2017 at the Crossings Mall in Elkview. The event, organized to raise money for the survivors of the June 2016 flood, featured bands like the Brighter...
View ArticleCharleston ESL class rewarding for students and teachers
By Douglas Imbrogno Malyka Knapp-Smith wanted to know: "What is the capital of New York?" A chorus of different voices piped up in various accents and pronunciations: "Al-ban-y!" She moved on....
View ArticleChurch archery program aims to bring kids in
By Lori Kersey At Kenny Sutton's whistle, the kids at St. Peter's United Methodist Church draw back their bow strings, and soon the arrows fly toward their targets. They continue, and Sutton walks...
View ArticlePHOTOS 45th annual Charleston Distance Run
About 1,000 were expected to take part in Saturday's annual Charleston Distance Run, now in its 45th year. The race began at the steps of the state Capitol and ended at Laidley Field. It featured...
View ArticleTanker truck spills gasoline in Nitro
By Staff reports A tanker truck spilled between 100 and 150 gallons of gasoline in Nitro on Saturday. A Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatcher said firefighters and other authorities responded to the...
View ArticleCooper becomes Charleston police chief as Webster goes to Public Works
By Ali Schmitz For the first time in 12 years, Charleston has a new police chief. Lt. Steve Cooper, who served as chief of detectives for the department, is replacing now-retired Charleston Police...
View ArticleFormer Miss Majorette remembers time in the spotlight
By Carlee Lammers All of a sudden, everyone knew who Kristie Roberts-Workman was. Her childhood home was filled with flowers, she was the center of attention at pep rallies, college scholarships came...
View ArticleWest Side private school to build butterfly garden
By Ali Schmitz Charleston's West Side will soon have a new butterfly garden. Lighthouse of Learning, a small private school in the Elk City neighborhood, will build the garden on an empty lot on...
View ArticleCommission gives final OK to Shawnee multi-sports complex
By Lori Kersey After hearing from an engineer hired to review chemical tests at the project site, Kanawha County commissioners on Tuesday gave final approval to build a multi-sport complex at Shawnee...
View ArticleRobbery reported at BB&T in Kanawha City
By Staff reports Charleston police are looking for the man who robbed a BB&T bank branch in Kanawha City with a gun, according to Kanawha County Metro 911. The robbery was reported just before 3...
View ArticleMan admits threat against WorkForce WV
By Lacie Pierson A Nitro man admitted Tuesday that he threatened to blow up the WorkForce West Virginia office when he was denied unemployment benefits in 2015. William Joseph Estep, 43, was set to...
View ArticleCharleston attorney's law license temporarily suspended
By Staff reports West Virginia Supreme Court justices issued an order last month to suspend the law license of Charleston attorney D. Adrian Hoosier II, according to a news release from the Office of...
View ArticleCharleston woman allegedly faked mother's will, pocketed $1 million
By Carlee Lammers Police say a Charleston woman created a fake will for her dying mother, in order to cut her siblings out of an estate worth more than $1 million. Tracie D. Wilson, 44, allegedly...
View ArticleNew councilwoman selected to fill seat in Dunbar
By By Mara Regling For the Gazette-Mail Dunbar City Council appointed a new councilwoman at Tuesday evening's meeting. Linda Boggess was appointed as a result of a unanimous vote to fill the vacant...
View ArticleEPA rejected Dow Chemical's Institute cleanup plan
By Ken Ward Jr. Five months ago, federal regulators quietly rejected a Dow Chemical proposal for cleaning up toxic pollution at the Institute chemical complex, a move that court records show is now...
View ArticleUS Methanol plant breaks ground in Institute
By Max Garland Chemical manufacturing startup US Methanol held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for its Liberty One methanol plant in Institute, as company representatives and state and local...
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