A public informational meeting to outline improvements planned to reduce traffic congestion along Big Tyler Road in Cross Lanes is scheduled to take place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday in Cross Lanes Baptist Church’s Family Life Center Gym at 102 Knollwood Drive in Cross Lanes.

The theft of copper wire from AT&T and Sprint cellphone towers and Frontier land lines in the Cabin Creek area produced a series of outages followed by three arrests, according to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.

Students, community members and state government officials gathered Wednesday at the site of the new Herbert Hoover High School to turn some dirt and mark the beginning of the long-awaited project.

Means Stone contractors work on a new “Welcome to Charleston” sign on Greenbrier Street, the path most travelers take from Yeager Airport. The sign should be completed in the next two weeks and will be similar to the welcome sign along Interstate 64 just before the Oakwood Road exit.

A plan to create an 8,000-foot runway with 1,000-foot safety overrun areas on each end at an estimated cost of $244 million has been identified as the preferred alternative for guiding future development at Charleston’s Yeager Airport on Thursday.

Kanawha County employees are now guaranteed 12 weeks of paid family leave, county commissioners voted Thursday evening.

In October, Freda Gilmore lay nearly restrained on the ground outside  the Family Dollar on Charleston’s West Side. Charleston Police Officer Carlie McCoy straddled Gilmore’s back. One of Gilmore's hands was handcuffed, and as McCoy attempted to wrangle the other one, Officer Joshua Mena arr…

Representatives of the city of Charleston, including City Council members and and representatives from city departments, will hold a four-stop Here to Serve tour that begins Jan. 29. The tour will let residents meet city representatives and ask questions about city services. Light refreshmen…

A public informational meeting on a master plan update for Yeager Airport including proposed runway and safety overrun extensions into neighboring Coonskin Park will take place Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Charleston airport’s conference room.

Unpaid 12-week family leave policies for state and Kanawha County employees would become paid under separate proposed enhancements introduced Tuesday in the House of Delegates and expected to be approved Thursday during a vote by the Kanawha County Commission.

A Charleston developer filing to run for the Kanawha County Commission and Nitro’s police chief filing to run for sheriff of Putnam County, were among the developments Monday as candidates got their first chance to officially put their names on the 2020 ballot.

Inspectors will examine the Interstate 64 bridge in the middle of Charleston all next week, but traffic should only be affected on one day.

Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said during her first State of the City address on Monday night that a renewed spirit of community in Charleston is moving the city forward.

A rebound in the market for recycled cardboard and an agreement with a new buyer for the used packaging material have allowed the Kanawha County Solid Waste Authority to resume collection of cardboard at its 600 Smith St. drop-off site in Charleston starting Jan. 2.