07/15/11 For Brian Apple and Aaron Guell it's the best of two worlds: Rally driving - not racing - through beautiful back-country, while raising money for a good cause.
07/14/11 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Coal industry officials and U.S. House Republicans on Thursday continued their campaign against the Obama administrations crackdown on mountaintop removal mining, with another in a series of hearings focused on U.S. Environmental Prote...
07/13/11 Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito, R-W.Va., received bipartisan support of her amendment to the Clear Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018), with a 268-152 passage in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night.
07/13/11 Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., received bipartisan support of her amendment to the Clear Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018), with a 268-152 passage in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night.
07/13/11 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin says he hasnt looked into new research that shows that babies born near Appalachian mountaintop removal sites have higher rates of birth defects. "Theres reports every day on something ca...
07/12/11 By: Jessica Lear The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum, which is housed in West Virginia University's College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, has won an award of merit from the American Association for State and Local History....
07/12/11 WHEELING - If an ethane cracker is to be built in West Virginia, commissioners from the six Northern Panhandle counties do not want to see the hundreds of potential jobs going to Charleston.
07/12/11 Louisville Orchestra offered contract by management. Classes were canceled at University of Louisville due to flooding. University of Tennessee offers new program for rural librarians. Kentucky fireworks laws did not affect sales of fireworks in Indiana. Construction on I-75 in Ohio is almost complete. Flatwoods, Ky., woman appears on 'Kathie Lee and Hoda.'
07/11/11 WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Putnam Countys inclusion in a federal program to fight drug trafficking is like finding the missing piece of a puzzle, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said Monday. Goodwin joined other law enforcement officials at the Putnam County Co...
07/08/11 It's summer! Time to get some sun. And, unless you're really diligent about sunscreen, maybe a sunburn or two. But the pain of the sunburn may be a thing of the past before too long. Researchers at Kings College London used ultraviolet-B radiation to create sunburns on small patches of skin on both human and rat subjects. They then investigated the affected skin to see what molecules were ...
07/08/11 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) Friday announced three federal funding awards for programs in southern West Virginia designed to increase access to a college and postsecondary education
07/08/11 Special Olympians earn medals WELLSBURG - Brooke County Special Olympians returned from the West Virginia Summer Games in Charleston with many medals and ribbons.
07/07/11 The Wellmont CVA Heart Institute and Alpha Natural Resources are taking superior cardiovascular care for Central Appalachia to greater heights with a new center for interventional cardiology at Bristol Regional Medical Center.
07/05/11 Virginia Beach, VA LASIK surgeon Dr. Peyton Neatrour, M.D. partook in his second trip as a member of the Appalachia Service Project to Hinton, West Virginia. He worked with the youth of Community United Methodist Church in rebuilding the houses of the less fortunate in the small-community in West Virginia. Dr. Peyton Neatrour joined 34 others, and focused on the 75-year-old home of an EMT ...
07/03/11 At some point this year - it may have already happened - production of Marcellus Shale natural gas will exceed Pennsylvania's demand for the fuel. The state will become a net exporter of natural gas.
07/02/11 The 253-mile stretch of highway through Appalachia's rural and rugged Southwest corner introduces visitors to that are warm, gracious and fiercely proud of a music now celebrated in recording studios, concert halls and events around the world. Picture Our World photo contest | More Travel
07/02/11 A southwestern Virginia lawmaker is again asking that officials with the Office of National Drug Control Policy put three local counties under a designation that would provide them with more federal resources to combat drug abuse and crime in the region.
06/24/11 Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. , a leading U.S. coal supplier, is pleased to announce that several of its affiliates were recently recognized for safety achievements.
06/24/11 PARIS, Va. -- History abounds in this picture-perfect hamlet snuggled in the crook of Ashby's Gap, in the heart of Northern Virginia's wine country. A young George Washington is said to have slept in the original Ashby Inn back when Paris was known as Pumpkintown, during his surveying trips for Lord Fairfax to the Virginia frontier west of the Shenandoah Valley.
06/23/11 Health study shows Hernando County bucking trend on life expectancy. | 
