A culvert blamed for flooding affecting several houses on Greenbrier Street in Charleston will be repaired, Kanawha officials announced Tuesday.
The Charleston Police Department is asking for the public’s help identifying a dead woman found on the side of Greenbrier Street earlier this week.
With extremely cold temperatures in the forecast for Charleston this week, a shelter will be open at least two nights for people with nowhere else to keep warm.
A long-time Kanawha County magistrate has resigned and agreed to never again seek judicial office after the West Virginia Judicial Investigation Commission found probable cause that he violated rules of the Code of Judicial Conduct.
For the children and staff at a West Side community center, Christmas came a little early this year.
Kanawha County kicked off the Coonskin Festival of Lights with the Christmas at Coonskin event Thursday evening at Coonskin Park. The festivities included rides on Hoppy’s Little Express, a Christmas tree lighting, various family activities, and a visit from Santa Claus. The event was held i…
Monday’s canvass of provisional and absentee ballots from Kanawha County’s general election last week produced “no significant changes” in race totals, officials said.
A grassroots, progressive political organization with a platform that includes decriminalizing harm reduction efforts and cannabis, among other things, saw some success in Charleston Tuesday night.
The West Virginia Board of Education approved Wednesday paying $380,000 to expand the Communities in Schools program on Charleston’s West Side.
The race for West Virginia Senate District 17 is between the Senate Majority Leader and a man seeking public office for the first time in his life.
Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick tested voting machines Tuesday at the Kanawha County Voter Registration office in Charleston. Secretary of State Mac Warner was on hand to watch the test.
West Virginia State University President Ericke Cage said last week that he wants to establish an internal audit office — after the school’s Board of Governors discussed multiple accounting problems.
Kanawha County voters have the choice this election to extend or end the excess levy supporting local public schools.
Showing up to speak publicly at government meetings in West Virginia can pay off.
A Virginia-based lawyer stood Oct. 4 before West Virginia’s Supreme Court and said: “No one contends the Legislature is failing to provide thorough and efficient schools.”
A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses John Adams Middle School’s band director of raping a Logan County High student in 2005, back when he worked there.
A former West Virginia lawmaker will challenge the longtime Kanawha County Clerk in this year’s general election.
Herbert Hoover High senior Caroline Dysart became the 75th Miss Kanawha Majorette Tuesday night, while the second-smallest band competing, George Washington High, won Festival Grand Champion.
Sissonville High Principal Gene Smith is the Kanawha County school system’s Principal of the Year.
An Elkview man was sentenced Wednesday to nearly two decades in prison for killing his cellmate at the South Central Regional Jail in 2018.
A man wanted for a shooting that left a Charleston man dead turned himself into law enforcement over the weekend.
Kanawha County officials are still tallying the costs of flash-floods that affected more than 300 households in the county earlier this month.
The Kanawha, Cabell and Mercer county school systems will be the first in West Virginia to test electric school buses under a pilot program kicking off soon.
The Kanawha County Board of Education unanimously voted Thursday evening to approve approximately $11 million in spending on three security measures, provided that November’s excess levy passes.
Under Charleston’s 2023 budget, city employees will get 7% cost-of-living increase.
The Kanawha County Commission has awarded federal coronavirus relief funds for the establishment of a new cyber security program at West Virginia State University.
Charleston police say they’re investigating a homicide in the city’s far East End.
Eastern Kanawha County residents are asking the county school system to spare Cedar Grove Middle’s gym from destruction.
The West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office will ask the Attorney General’s Office for an opinion about a legislative rule the Kanawha County Commission defied last month when it voted to move forward with an early voting location on Charleston’s West Side.
The West Virginia State University Presidential Search Committee has announced three finalists.
The driver of a vehicle involved in a collision that killed two people in Charleston last month has been charged with two counts of driving under the influence causing death.
University of Charleston President Marty Roth will not become Winthrop University’s president.
Over opposition from the Kanawha County Republican Executive Committee, the Kanawha County Commission voted unanimously Thursday to move ahead with a plan to put an in-person early voting site on Charleston’s West Side during this year’s election.
Growing up on Charleston’s West Side, Turan Rush and his friends used athletics as an escape from what they faced in the rest of their lives.
Andrew Crawford has been promoted to be Kanawha County’s facilities planning executive director.
Kristin Kingery says she spent more than a decade serving her country before one man decided she didn’t belong within the ranks.
Three Kanawha County schools are hosting free, walk-in, rapid COVID-19 tests in the new year, according to a news release from the county school system.
A portion of a Charleston community center now bears the name of a late city patrolman known as the “father of after-school programs.”
The Charleston Christmas parade, scheduled for Thursday, will close several streets that day, the city announced Tuesday.
The city of Charleston will support West Virginia Health Right in the continuation of its syringe services program.
Set on Charleston’s West Side, the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia — the state’s lone abortion provider — has weathered challenges before, but none like the storm looming in Washington.
A defense attorney representing the man accused of killing a Charleston police officer last year has asked a judge to move the man’s trial out of Kanawha County.
The now-former Kanawha County elementary school counselor recently accused of possessing child pornography has pleaded not guilty.
The latest lawsuit against a former Holz Elementary teacher accuses her of making a special education student repeatedly eat out of the sink, forcing her to stand in a garbage can, sweeping trash onto her, cutting her lip by slamming her head into a desk and repeatedly verbally abusing her.
After holding public forums Thursday, Charleston City Council will soon vote on whether to support West Virginia Health Right’s bid to continue offering syringe services at its Covenant House and East End clinics.
A Kanawha County grand jury has indicted a former Holz Elementary School teacher for allegedly harming three special education children, including striking one with a file cabinet door, jerking her by her hair and throwing her to the floor.
The parents of a special education student are suing the Kanawha County school system and a former Holz Elementary teacher over the employee allegedly hitting their son.
CHARLES TOWN — Accel Schools says it serves schools in seven states. West Virginia could be the eighth.
BridgeValley Community and Technical College officials are seeking to unload five buildings in Montgomery, a move that would slash the school’s footprint there by two-thirds.
