Staff Reports CHARLESTON — Wood, Wetzel, Roane, Calhoun, Tyler and Ritchie counties remained in the red zone of the County Alert System on Tuesday, the highest level based on rate of infection and percent positivity, according to the Tuesday morning pandemic update by the West Virginia ...

PARKERSBURG — As school started in the region in the past week, COVID numbers are rising with hundreds of students in quarantine and counties in the red on the County Alert System map. As of Tuesday afternoon, Wood County Schools officials confirmed 801 students are in quarantine due to ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The Wood County Schools Board of Education narrowly approved action to enforce a mask policy after just eight school days into the new school year. In a special meeting at Williamstown High School on Monday evening, the school board voted 3-2 in favor of following the ...

PARKERSBURG — A rally was held in downtown Parkersburg on Monday with people protesting against mask and vaccine mandates in the state of West Virginia. Over 200 people, the majority unmasked, gathered at Bicentennial Park in downtown Parkersburg to call on the governor and state lawmakers ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia is nearly 16 beds away from reaching the state’s peak ICU usage for COVID-19 patients in January, according to recent hospitalization data. According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, hospitalizations for COVID-19 as of Friday was 640 ...

CHARLESTON — Active cases of the COVID-19 virus were at 666 Monday morning in Wood County, an increase of 76 since Friday, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said in its pandemic update. Active cases statewide were at 16,732, an increase of nearly 3,000 new cases ...