CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Public Service Commission has turned down more than half of Appalachian Power Company’s request for a $250.5 million base rate increase. The PSC approved $76.1 million in an order issued late Thursday and at the same time told the utility it cannot collect the increase through traditional means. “The companies…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The public funeral service for state Supreme Court Justice Tim Armstead will take place in the House of Delegates Chamber next Tuesday. Armstead died Tuesday of cancer. He was 60-years-old. Armstead, who served 20 years in the House, will be remembered in visitation services from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The service…
CHELYAN, W.Va. — Southbound traffic stalled on the West Virginia Turnpike Thursday morning in Kanawha County when a tractor-trailer caught on fire near the Chelyan toll plaza. The fire was reported at before 10 a.m. and southbound quickly backed up for a few miles close to the Marmet exit. Southbound traffic was moving again by…
Story by Daniel Woods CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Renovations to the terminal at Yeager International Airport are poised to move forward after the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority’s board voted to award a $5.5 million construction contract to Grae-Con Construction, Inc. Paige Withrow At its meeting Wednesday, the board accepted Grae-Con’s bid for the project that…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Maryland man accused in a Charleston murder pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Friday in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Joshua Robert Scales, 33, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was indicted recently by Kanawha County grand jury following his February arrest on charges that he shot and killed Ethan Chic-Colbert, 34, of St. Albans…
HAMLIN, W.Va. — Lincoln County Sheriff Brian Graley has died. Brian Graley Graley, 59, died Thursday following a recent illness. Graley was serving his first term as sheriff. He was the Lincoln County circuit clerk from 2022 to 2024. Longtime friend, Lincoln County Commissioner Josh Stowers, said Graley will be sorely missed. “He was just…
BELLE, W.Va. — Officials at a Kanawha County chemical plant say there was never any danger to public health or the environment in connection with an ammonia leak that took place Saturday morning. A shelter-in-place was issued at around 10:30 a.m. when an ammonia senor at the Belle plant facility indicated a leak. The shelter-in-place…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Wayne County man will be on home confinement for at least the next three years after being sentenced in a DUI with death case. Ryan Jones Ryan Jones, 28, pleaded guilty in June to being drunk when he wrecked his truck in Sissonville in October 2023 killing his best friend, passenger,…
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Summerfest, the annual celebration in downtown South Charleston, is underway. Mayor Frank Mullens says there’s free music and many other activities through Saturday night. “What I like most about it is that you see a lot of people you don’t get to see all the time. It’s just a good time…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kanawha County authorities closed the Carper Public Safety Complex in downtown Charleston Tuesday after a natural gas leak. A crew working at the corner of Virginia and Truslow streets accidentally ruptured a gas line late Tuesday morning. Those inside the building, which houses the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department and Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney’s…