CHARLESTON – A recent audit of the West Virginia Department of Human Services found a potential for $68 million in savings, but department officials said that could take years to realize and lawmakers expressed frustration at growing expenses for the data program underpinning the entire ...
MARIETTA — Outdoor enthusiasts took to Marietta’s roads, trails and waterways over the weekend as the Rivers, Trails & Ales Festival returned with cycling, running, kayaking and family activities. The festival offered opportunities for participants of different ages and experience ...
PARKERSBURG - Downtown Brewfest, the event formerly known as the Downtown Throwdown, brought folks to Bicentennial Park in Parkersburg Saturday evening.
PARKERSBURG – An Ohio man died after a single-vehicle accident that closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 77 near the Emerson Avenue exit to Parkersburg on Sunday afternoon. A 2025 Chevrolet Equinox traveling north on I-77 near the 180.2 mile marker ran off the left side of the road into the earth median before rolling, according to a release from the Wood County Sheriff’s Office. A passenger in the vehicle, 57-year-old Michael Todd Walker of Carrollton, Ohio, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, Wendy Sue Walker, 56, also of Carrollton, was taken to WVU Medicine ...
CHARLESTON – A company executive with Flock Safety defended their Automated License Plate Reader technology as a vital tool for “precision policing” that helps solve crimes and recover missing persons, while opponents argue these AI-powered cameras threaten Fourth Amendment privacy ...
MARIETTA – A show based on one of the most influential albums in rock and roll will be presented at the planetarium at Marietta College. Music and visual storytelling will come together in "Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon" in the upgraded Anderson Hancock Planetarium. Presentations ...
