PARKERSBURG – Members of Parkersburg City Council will vote on adding a training officer to the Fire Department, setting increased municipal pool rates for the summer and approving pay raises included in the upcoming budget when they meet Tuesday. The first regular meeting of May is being ...

CHARLESTON – With two months remaining in fiscal year 2026, West Virginia has enough surplus tax collections to cover all of the items awaiting funding when the new fiscal year begins on July 1. According to data from the governor's office and the monthly report released by the Senate ...

VIENNA – Saturday was Free Comic Book Day, an annual event to promote reading and collecting comics that sees stores like Asylum Comics in Marietta and Lost Legion Games & Comics – The Vault in Vienna offer free promotional issues to customers. The event is accompanied by sales and ...

CHARLESTON - Attorneys for a Texas-based hotel company filed new documents in federal court over the weekend amending their requests for a judge to place U.S. Sen. Jim Justice's Greenbrier Resort into receivership and block any interference by the Justice family in the historic hotel's ...

MARIETTA – The American Red Cross Ohio River Valley Chapter has received a $15,000 Community Impact grant to improve how blood is collected for local patients from the Memorial Health Foundation. The contribution, made ahead of the summer months when the Red Cross often sees a dip in blood ...

MARIETTA - Washington County Commissioners this week approved the rebid for the Hune Covered Bridge rehabilitation project. The lowest of two bidders, The Righter Co., bid $2,463,197, which was within 10% of the engineer’s estimate. The Righter Co. made a bid in March but it exceeded ...