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Wife demanded millionaire husband build apartments at Bramwell, W.Va.

David Sibray In Collins Lobby
BRAMWELL, W.Va. — Tired of entertaining, the wife of a West Virginia industrialist in the late 1800s demanded her husband limit the number of...

Historic Middleway, West Virginia, endangered by bottling facility

Middleway Photo By Nichole Chapman
ELKINS, W.Va. — The Preservation Alliance of West Virginia is adding the Middleway Historic District in Jefferson County to the West Virginia Endangered Properties...

WVU program to help pay fees, tuition for West Virginia students

WVU Guarantee Program
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is launching a new program that will provide funding to cover the costs of tuition and university fees...

Here are the most extreme cold events recorded in West Virginia...

Canaan Valley By Tyler Evert
BECKLEY, W.Va. — West Virginia has weathered many extremely cold winter events, due in part to its mountains and position in the interior mid-Atlantic...

Expanding W.Va. theater trail continues boosting economic growth

The Robison Grand in Clarksburg, West Virginia
ELKINS, W.Va. — Four theaters in West Virginia have been added to the state’s historic theater trail, established in 2010 to boost cultural and...

Here are the top 10 winter snows that shaped West Virginia...

Enjoying The West Virginia Winter
BECKLEY, W.Va. — West Virginia can be a snowy place. Though not nearly as snowy as Maine or Alaska, it snows much of winter,...

Monster “hellbenders” are lurking in West Virginia’s cleanest streams

Hellbender Salamander In West Virginia
HINTON, W.Va. — Beneath the surface of clean-flowing streams in West Virginia, a multitude of strange creatures lurk, but none is perhaps more shocking...

Five reasons why your family should visit West Virginia this winter 

Winter In West Virginia
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – During a time of year when snuggling under a blanket on the couch seems more reasonable than going outside, West Virginia...

Starlink broadband attracting residents to remote West Virginia

Starlink Over West Virginia
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Satellite-based broadband is allowing telecommuters to settle in some of the most remote areas in West Virginia, a development that's changing...

Tax credit expansion devised in W.Va. will benefit all rural U.S.

Building on Main Streeet in Shepherdstown West Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An initiative designed to attract economic investment to historic buildings and districts in rural communities is being introduced to Congress by...

Here's how West Virginia's unique eastern panhandle came to be

Map Showing Eastern Panhandle Of WV
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia’s remarkable shape is rendered even more so by its eastern panhandle, which extends nearly 100 miles eastward from the...

Unique northern panhandle of West Virginia created by historic dispute

Section Of 1918 Map Of West Virginia Railroads 1
WEIRTON, W.Va — West Virginia's remarkable shape is partly defined by its odd northern panhandle, a finger of land that extends northward more than...

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