MARIETTA — FFA at the Washington County Career Center has elected 2020-21 chapter officers. Members participating in the organization are students from the Landscape Construction & Turf Management program. The organization expands opportunities for classroom instruction to be applied to ...

CHARLESTON — State officials praised company executives with Virgin Hyperloop for selecting West Virginia out of 17 other states for their certification center to develop standards and regulations for the next generation of high-speed transportation. Gov. Jim Justice and state ...

PARKERSBURG — Officials recently visited the former Suddenlink building in Parkersburg as another potential site to move the Wood County 911 Center, Wood County Commission President Blair Couch said Thursday. Couch was part of a group of local officials who toured the building near the ...

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Schools were notified of two confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 at both Parkersburg and Parkersburg South High Schools by the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department on Thursday. According to both releases from the district, the MOVHD is working with the schools to ...

CHARLESTON — One person has been confirmed to have died from the COVID-19 virus since Wednesday morning, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reported Thursday morning. The state reported the death of a 78-year-old man from Kanawha County in the 24-hour period since ...

VIENNA — Vienna City Council Thursday approved the purchase of updated software and security cameras for the police and city Information Technology services and to proceed with a grant for a kayak landing at Spencer's Landing. Council unanimously passed new court software in line with ...

PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two men. Brian Keith Sidwell, no age or address listed, was indicted by the Wood County Grand Jury in September on charges of delivery of a controlled substance causing death and delivery of a controlled ...

VIENNA — Offering a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program for the first time at Jackson Middle school, students will learn science and engineering concepts through hands-on assignments. The new program will not only encourage innovation for students learning with ...

PARKERSBURG — The WVU Parkersburg Fine Arts Committee will lead a community-wide volunteer initiative to clean the Wood County Poorhouse and Farm from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday. The clean up of the farm on the WVU Parkersburg main campus is in honor of the college’s Poorhouse Week ...

GRANTSVILLE — Two employees with Minnie Hamilton Health Systems and the Calhoun County School System have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, officials said. Minnie Hamilton CEO Stephen Whited said an employee in the health system tested positive and two others are in quarantine due to ...

VIENNA — The Artist Walk sponsored by Artsbridge continues Saturday at the Grand Central Mall in Vienna. Held from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in the parking lot by J.C. Penney, the show of local artists will be held every Saturday in October. It features 15 artists and their handmade art, with different ...

MARIETTA — The Washington County Health Department will hold a drive-thru flu shot clinic for children and adults from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday at the health department, 342 Muskingum Drive, Marietta. The exit will be on Colgate Drive. Bring a form of payment such as an insurance card. Flu ...

BELPRE — Marietta/Belpre Health Department and Belpre City Schools are partnering to offer a Drive-Through Flu Vaccination Clinic from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at Belpre Elementary School. The clinic is open to the public, and all individuals are asked to wear a mask to protect one another. ...

CHARLESTON — The rise in COVID-19 cases during the summer and fall didn’t stop candidates for offices on the West Virginia Board of Public Works from raising the money they need to reach voters for the Nov. 3 general election. The third quarter campaign finance reports covering the period ...

PARKERSBURG — A House of Delegates candidate for the 10th District in Wood County is approaching $50,000 in contributions for the 2020 election. Republican incumbent Vernon Criss for the year reported contributions of $48,648 and expenditures of $11,235, according to the 2020 3rd quarter ...

PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg High School robotics program took flight with a drone flying demonstration by students at Stadium Field on Wednesday morning. A relatively new program to the high school, it’s been nearly three years since the program was offered to students. PHS was able ...

CHARLESTON - After spending nearly a year wooing executives with Virgin Hyperloop, the company selected West Virginia out of 17 other states for its certification center. Virgin Hyperloop will construct the Hyperloop Certification Center on 800 acres of land between Tucker and Grant counties. ...

DETROIT (AP) — Six men plotted to try to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court. Four of the six men had planned to meet Wednesday to “make a payment on explosives and exchange tactical ...

CHARLESTON — The second third-party poll on the 2020 race for governor released Wednesday shows a slightly tighter race between Republican Gov. Jim Justice and Democratic Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango. A poll released by Strategies Unlimited for anti-Justice group WV First shows ...