West Virginia officials counted steep costs and reported lingering recovery efforts to state lawmakers at a Joint Legislative Flooding Committee meeting on Dec. 9, 2025. At the meeting, presentations ...

The West Virginia Department of Transportation is examining how it responds to flooding events, following two major flooding ...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia -- Powerful photos and video are emerging amid historic flooding in West Virginia that's left nearly two dozen people dead. West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin issued a state ...

OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) — “This wasn’t a flood, it was a natural disaster. Why are they making it so difficult?” Those are the words of one Ohio County resident about the continued hardship of ...

Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick ...

The PGA Tour has canceled the Greenbrier Classic due to the flooding in West Virginia that has caused extensive damage to The Old White TPC course. A severe storm hit southeast West Virginia on ...

MARIETTA — Peoples Bank has donated nearly $16,000 for flood relief in southern West Virginia. Storms of such an intensity on June 23 that may occur every thousand years caused widespread destuction ...

House lawmakers unveiled a new gun control bill identical to the Senate bill. In our news wrap Friday, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers unveiled a new gun control bill identical to the Senate ...

DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an ...

DRENNEN, W.Va (WOWK) — Nicholas County Commission President D. Craig Chapman says at least one person is unaccounted for and believed trapped about 3/4 of a mile under the mountain at the Rolling ...

NEW MARTINSVILLE, W.Va. — The West Virginia Country Roads Festival is underway at the 4H Campgrounds in New Martinsville, offering a variety of family-friendly events that showcase local talent ...