CHARLESTON — One person from Wood County was confirmed as a death from the COVID-19 coronavirus Wednesday morning from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The state confirmed the death of a76-year-old male from Wood County, according to the Wednesday morning pandemic ...

By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS Staff Reporter CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate approved a bill Tuesday giving county and city governments final say over rules developed by boards of health, while an attempt to give those local governments say over past decisions failed. Senate Bill 12, ...

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Education approved unanimous decisions Tuesday that PreK-8 students will return to in-person instruction five days a week and grades 9-12 to attend five days a week in person for counties that are not red. During a press conference Friday, Gov. ...

Staff Report CHARLESTON — Eleven additional deaths were confirmed from the virus in the 24-hour period from Monday to Tuesday morning, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reported on Tuesday. The total since the pandemic began a year ago is 2,274 residents, the ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia continues to see drops on COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to a succussful vaccination effort. According to data from the Department of Health and Human Resources, the number of positive cases over a 14-day period between Feb. 8 and Feb. 21 was ...

PARKERSBURG — Nearly 14,000 Wood County residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to statistics from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. That represents 16.5 percent of the county’s population, the eighth-lowest total in the state. ...

CHARLESTON — Local health departments and Senate Democratic leaders are concerned a bill meant to provide oversight to local health departments would interfere with public health and erode morale of overworked health officials. Senate Bill 12 is up for passage today in the state Senate. It ...

CHARLESTON — Vaccination clinics are scheduled this week in local counties and around West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Joint Interagency Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccines said in a joint release. The vaccination ...

MARIETTA — Since March 2020, more than $1.3 million has been raised to assist Memorial Health System with COVID-19 care. Some $700,000 was raised between December and February for patient care and to operationalize a vaccination clinic for the region. For the past 40 years, the foundation ...

CHARLESTON — Three cases of the U.K. variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been detected in West Virginia, the state Department of Health and Human Resources announced. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the B.1.1.7 variant was identified in the ...

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday that COVID-19 regulations and rules for restaurants, bars, businesses, grocery stores, and schools will be eased due to plummeting coronavirus cases and increased vaccinations. Justice said he was issuing a series of executive orders Friday to ...

CHARLESTON — Republican voters in West Virginia overwhelmingly approve of Gov. Jim Justice’s handling of the nearly yearlong pandemic, but are split on the governor’s tax reform proposals. Jackson County radio station WMOV 1360 AM and Oregon-based Triton Polling and Research released ...

CHARLESTON — Three people from the region are among the deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus confirmed on Friday, according to the Department of Health and Human Resources. The state confirmed the deaths of two 87-year-old men from Jackson County and a 63-year-old man from Wood County. ...

CHARLESTON - Gov. Jim Justice announced Friday that COVID-19 regulations and rules for restaurants, bars, businesses, grocery stores and schools will be eased due to plummeting coronavirus cases and increased vaccinations. Justice said he was issuing a series of executive orders Friday to ...

PARKERSBURG — County officials are still looking into alternative venues to conduct upcoming trials. Wood County Commissioner Robert Tebay on Thursday asked Wood County Prosecutor Pat Lefebure if court officials have given any more consideration to holding trials at the Smoot Theatre in ...

CHARLESTON — Three residents of Wood County were confirmed Thursday as among deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The state confirmed the deaths of a 91-year-old woman, an 84-year-old woman and an 87-year-old woman from Wood ...

PARKERSBURG — Delays in getting a second COVID-19 inoculation because of this week’s wintry weather should have no impact on the vaccine’s effectiveness, a Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department official said. “After the date that they’re supposed to get the second dose, we have six to ...

PARKERSBURG — Stonerise, a provider of transitional and skilled nursing care that operates the former Eagle Pointe Skilled Nursing Center in Parkersburg, announced Thursday new guidelines for in-person patient visits at its centers. Skilled nursing centers can begin welcoming visitors under ...

CHARLESTON — The governor may discuss easing pandemic restrictions on schools and businesses Friday, he said during Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing. Gov. Jim Justice also announced additional dosages of the vaccines next week and changes to the state coronavirus information dashboard to ...

BELPRE — Like so many activities and traditions in the last year, Ash Wednesday 2021 looked a little different around the Mid-Ohio Valley. Instead of spreading the ashes in the shape of a cross on the foreheads of parishioners to mark the start of the Lenten season, Father John Rice, ...