NEW YORK — Americans are drinking more now than when Prohibition was enacted. What’s more, it’s been rising for two decades, and it’s not clear when it will fall again.

CASPER, Wyo. — Attorneys for bankrupt coal company Blackjewel LLC and its creditors are asking a federal judge to let them examine the finances of former CEO Jeff Hoops, alleging that he took millions of dollars for personal gain, according to court documents.

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 145,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5 percent, signaling that the job market remains strong at the start of 2020 even if hiring and wage gains have slowed somewhat more than a decade into an economic expansion.

The Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed that a planned reduction in nighttime operating hours for the air traffic control tower at Charleston’s Yeager Airport will not take place, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., told Kanawha County Commission members on Tuesday.

The Kanawha County Commission has received a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification for Panther Creek Mining's operations on Toms Fork Road near Eskdale on Cabin Creek for the layoff of 65 workers, set to take place in March.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A coal producer has given notice that it plans to lay off 65 workers in southern West Virginia in March.

HUNTINGTON — Sara Wyrick Catron says being a stay-at-home mom was a part of her life journey that she believed would lead to following her career path after her children were grown.

HUNTINGTON — Mountain Health Network will be the new naming sponsor to the Huntington Civic Arena, the arena announced Wednesday.

It is not often a small family business survives 100 years, but that is exactly what the Foard family did.

Shoppers were out bright and early in search of bargains on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year.

United Bankshares Inc., the Charleston-based parent company of United Bank, and Carolina Financial Corporation, the parent company of CresCom Bank, announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.

The Shops at Kanawha mall, in Charleston’s Kanawha City neighborhood, formerly known as the Kanawha Mall, has been sold for $18.5 million.

A technology company that announced earlier this year it was opening a branch in Charleston officially did so Monday.

Timberline Four Seasons Resort will go on the auction block in Philadelphia on Nov. 19, following an order filed Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MARTINSBURG — Midnight on the General Motors picket line is a lively affair.