Demolition work started on the old Macy’s Building located near the Town Center Mall in downtown ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä, WV on April 25, 2024. The building is being taken down to make way for a brand new multi-million dollar sports facility, the Capital Sports Complex. The new complex will include sever…
Zach Frazier, a center and a four-year starter on West Virginia University’s football team, is preparing to be drafted during this year’s National Football League Draft. The first round of the NFL Draft is scheduled to begin on Thursday, April 24, 2024, at 8 P.M., while rounds 2 through 7 wi…
Kevin Gudejko, president and CEO of Mainstreet Ventures Restaurant Group, which owns and operated the Tidewater Grill and The Chop House discusses, on April 22, 2024, the closure of the two well-known ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä, West Virginia restaurants.
Flash floods hit the Kanawha Valley on April 11, 2024. Julie Thornton’s 40-foot RV and two trailers were lost during the flooding near her home on Smith Creek Road in Tornado.
On April 11, 1974, the Kanawha County Board of Education voted to acquire new textbooks. This resulted in a series of violent incidents including school bombings, mass protests, and numerous arrests. The Gazette-Mail archive has preserved photographs depicting the unrest that took place in t…
A timelapse showing the moment of totality during the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse, captured from Mineral Ridge, Ohio.
A crowd of over 100 people looked towards the sky as the Clay Center in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä hosted Solar Eclipse Day on April 8, 2024. The Clay Center set up a telescope and provided eclipse glasses, allowing the onlookers a chance to safely view the partial solar eclipse.
For the last 30 years, Margaret LaFever has been building personal collections of salt and pepper shakers to over 12,000 sets. Now with the help of funding from a GoFundMe page, she hopes to build the first salt and pepper shaker museum in West Virginia outside of Williamson in Mingo County.
The National Weather Service in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä said in a statement that preliminary results of storm surveys indicate that tornadoes hit the Kanawha County communities of Quick and Cross Lanes, and a microburst damaged trees in the Sherwood Forest area of ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä.
On this week’s show, WVU officials step up to help the dozens of students displaced after the recent fire caused by lightning that struck the Lofts apartments. Next, we explore a new eco-friendly and affordable energy source that may be a great alternative to gas and coal. We also explain wh…
