The Crow Pole, folks in “The Hollow” called it. It was little more than a wide spot by the side of the road, a place where older men sat and enjoyed each other’s company.
After 17 years, the organizers of the Charleston Rod Run and Doo Wop Car Show say they’re calling it quits. The event’s executive board late last week announced the cancellation of this year’s event and all future shows.
Scores of railroad enthusiasts and model train fans flocked to the Charleston Convention Center for the Kanawha Valley Railroad Association’s 17th annual Model Train and Craft Show on Saturday.
Expecting to spend more to house inmates, Kanawha County is putting an additional half-million dollars toward its jail bill for the next budget year.
There’s a party for a good cause on Thursday that promises to be a real page-turner.
In the next fiscal year, the city of Charleston will take what officials say is the first step in increasing the salaries of all city workers to at least $15 per hour.
The top 32 girls high school basketball teams across four classifications in West Virginia will descend upon the Capital City starting Tuesday as the state tournament tips off at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center.
The annual Celtic Calling stepped off Saturday afternoon in Charleston with a parade of drums and pipes. The parade included bands, dancers, an 18-foot St. Patrick and a Loch Ness Monster. The celebration sprawled from Capitol Street to City Center at Slack Plaza via Brawley Walkway.
A little more than a year ago, 38 West Side businesspeople and sympathizers protested — loudly. The Religious Coalition for Community Renewal wanted to use COVID-19 aid money to start a drop-in and residential treatment center at Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church in Charleston’s Elk City ne…
The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved the distribution of 46 grants totaling $1,434,068. Funding supports programs such as Lawyer in the School.
Two residents and a firefighter were injured in a house fire in Charleston’s East End Friday afternoon. The fire was reported at 2:46 p.m. in the 1500 block of Quarrier Street.
The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Friday that would make it a felony punishable by up to life in prison to obstruct a police officer or other first responder in a way that results in their death.
The sight of Spirit Airlines’ bright yellow Airbus passenger jets approaching or departing West Virginia International Yeager Airport will fade into the sunset in May.
An attorney is likely to be the city of Charleston’s next city manager. Mayor Amy Goodwin announced Thursday that she will appoint Ben Mishoe as city manager.
Acts representing four diverse musical genres will headline the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta this summer.
If you like Bruce Springsteen, “Badlands” conjures memories of a passionate, piano-driven tune, complete with searing guitar solo.
Josh Boggess, 32, spins his scooter around during a jump at the skate park inside Charleston’s Coonskin Park on Tuesday. Boggess, a school bus driver for Kanawha County Schools, said he has been skateboarding for 22 years.
One month after fire destroyed an apartment building in Charleston’s East End, many of the displaced residents have moved to other properties owned by the same company.
Four local women were honored for making an impact on their communities on Friday, from a fundraising dentist to an activist educator, a dedicated healer, and a single mother chasing an altruistic dream.
A report stemming from a regular audit of the city of Charleston’s finances indicates the West Virginia State Auditor’s Office was investigating the city’s practices for using temporary workers.
A Kanawha County woman on Thursday pleaded guilty to killing a woman found at the bottom of a well in 2021.
The U.S. Men’s National Volleyball team will defend home court one final time before heading to Paris for 2024 Olympic Qualifiers this fall, and they’ll do it in Charleston.
MSHA issues final report citing inadequate training as a cause of fatal Kanawha County mine accident
Federal mine regulators have released their final report on a Kanawha County mine accident that killed a 33-year-old roof bolter in September, attributing the incident to mine operator safety failures.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and Union Carbide Corp. have signed an agreement regulators say will lower emissions of a chemical which can cause cancer that has sparked environmental health concerns in the Kanawha Valley.
Officials representing Kanawha County Schools and area law enforcement agencies partnered Friday to advise the community on how to keep guns out of the hands of children.
The Charleston Fire Department has not determined the cause of an apartment building fire that displaced dozens of residents Wednesday evening, and the building’s demolition might make the investigation even more difficult.
Prosecutors have cleared a Charleston police officer who shot and killed a man after he hit the officer in the head with a piece of rebar earlier this month.
Gov. Jim Justice hit the road Wednesday to promote his 50% personal income tax cut proposal, which has sat idle in the West Virginia Senate since last week.
A bill that sailed through the West Virginia Senate on Wednesday would make rules and regulations promulgated by the state Public Service Commission subject to legislative review.
Charleston Department Store owner Barry Ogrin says he feels a proposed housing development — to be built on land presently occupied by his store — has not gotten a fair shake from three city council members who spoke against it last week.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said Monday deputies are investigating the death of a West Virginia House of Delegates staff member last week as a homicide.
Kerry “Paco” Ellison is used to giving to the Campbells Creek community.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office will equip deputies with body and dash cams.
David Cummings, of Hamlin, adds a freshly caught rainbow trout to his stringer while fishing Friday with his cousin at Nitro’s Ridenour Lake. West Virginia’s 2023 trout stocking season began Jan. 3 and continues through early spring. For more information, visit www.wvdnr.gov/fish-stockings.
Kanawha County Schools approved an order for its first electric school bus, becoming the first county school system in the state to purchase one from a company with local ties, according a manufacturer representative.
A Columbus, Ohio-based company has been selected to receive $754,000 in tax credits to construct affordable housing on Charleston’s West Side, a West Virginia Housing Development fund spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Two Charleston City Council members said Wednesday they’ve been told by the owner of the Charleston Department Store and city officials that the building will be razed to make way for low-income housing.
Charleston City Council approved a measure to help cover the cost of maintaining “off-system bridges,” or those not currently tended to by the state of West Virginia, during a meeting Tuesday evening.
Saying he had committed a “heinous crime” in cold blood, Kanawha Circuit Judge Kenneth Ballard on Tuesday sentenced Gavin Smith to the maximum allowable terms for the December 2020 murders of four family members.
Hundreds of people gathered Monday afternoon in Charleston to honor and remember the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the community center that bears his name.
The patience of Kanawha Valley residents for state efforts to strengthen protections against a cancer-causing chemical is short because their memories are long.
About 4 a.m. two days before Christmas, Sam Barton awoke on a Charleston street to Amy Wolfe beckoning him indoors.
The father of a man who Charleston police shot and killed during an altercation earlier this week said the family wants more information about the circumstances that led to the man’s death.
There’s no need to explain a love-hate relationship to Frank Lewis.
Charleston police shot and killed a man while investigating a trespassing complaint Wednesday afternoon.
Dairy Winkle, a community staple of Campbells Creek in Eastern Kanawha County, is “a total loss” after a fire Wednesday morning.
A nonprofit chemical and advanced software firm in the South Charleston Regional Technology Park is morphing into a private, employee-owned concern.
An attorney representing the driver of a tractor-trailer that wrecked on the West Virginia Turnpike in August, causing a chemical spill that killed thousands of fish downstream in Paint Creek, met Friday with Kanawha County officials about submitting a remediation plan for the damage.
Police say a woman stabbed to death her boyfriend’s daughter during an argument in Charleston Thursday night.
