Rick Steelhammer

In Charleston, West Virginia, Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler was named executive director of the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority, following a vote on June 25, 2026, by the KCEAA’s Board of Directors. Jason Sergent, a 30-year veteran of the ambulance authority, was appointed to serve as Wheeler’s deputy director. Sergent had been serving as the authority’s interim director following the departure late last month of former executive director Monica Mason, who resigned in the wake of controversy following the April 16 death of John Curtis Lucas of Elkview, West Virginia after Lucas was struck by a KCEAA ambulance and dragged for nearly two miles.

The driver and an emergency medical technician aboard a Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority ambulance on April 16 when it struck Elkview resident John Curtis Lucas and dragged him for

Triton Construction of St. Albans, West Virginia has been awarded a $75.5 million contract to complete the rehabilitation of one of the state’s most heavily used highway structures, Charleston, West Virginia’s 51-year-old Fort Hill Interstate 64 bridge, the West Virginia Department of Transportation announced on June 30, 2026.

West Virginia House Democrats on July 2, 2026, announced they were asking Gov. Patrick Morrisey to call a special session “dedicated to alleviating the financial crisis our state’s public school system is facing," and stating that more schools are at risk of closing if they wait until the Legislative session in 2027.

Triton Construction of St. Albans has been awarded a $74.5 million contract to complete the rehabilitation of one of the state’s most heavily used highway structures, Charleston’s 51-year-old Fort Hill Interstate 64 bridge, the state Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday.

West Virginia House Democrats on July 2, 2026, announced they were asking Gov. Patrick Morrisey to call a special session “dedicated to alleviating the financial crisis our state’s public school system is facing," and stating that more schools are at risk of closing if they wait until the Legislative session in 2027.

In a hearing before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Kenneth Ballard on July 6, 2026, Gavin Blaine Smith was sentenced to life in prison for one count of first-degree murder plus the equivalent of 40 additional years of imprisonment for three counts of second-degree murder, to be served in a combination of consecutive and concurrent sentences, for the 2020 shooting deaths of four members of his family in Elkview, Kanawha County, West Virginia.

A city trails system in Beckley, West Virginia is drawing hikers and mountain bikers from across the Mountain State and beyond. The trails include the Gray Flats Trail System, the Waterfall Hollow Trail in the PIney Creek Preserve, the Wildwood Trail, the Stanaford Grove Trailhead, all connected in the Piney Creek Gorge.

Updated 5 min to read BECKLEY — For Beckley, the road to economic development starts with trails.

Updated 1 min to read A 19-year-old Charleston man on Tuesday received sentences totaling 21 years of imprisonment for the accidental