CHARLESTON, W.Va. — -State Transportation Secretary Todd Rumbaugh remembers the night of June 23, 2016 well.
Todd Rumbaugh
He said after rain for several hours reports started to come in about water pouring onto Interstate 79 not far from the Elkview exit in Kanawha County.
Rumbaugh said they were going to have to close the interstate.
“It was unsafe because of the amount of water that flowing across the interstate and so that was the first part that came around and brought notice of what was

CHARLESTON, W.Va – The West Virginia Hope Scholarship Board of Directors is moving forward with a plan to comply with legislation passed earlier this year that requires Hope funding to be paid out on a quarterly basis.
The legislature approved that measure during the most recent session, and now, families receiving scholarship money are required to have their documentation filed by the first day of each month that funds are dispersed.
“We were trying to come up with a way to facilitate this and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Crews are busy installing a 230-foot Ferris wheel at the state Capitol Complex with the start of a four-day America 250 celebration in the Capital City one week away.
The America250 Wheel will be situated behind the Capitol building in the center of the complex. Trucks lugging parts of the wheel began rumbling into the state Capitol Complex Thursday morning. The installation process will take three-to-four days and around 400 man-hours.
Jen Puente
America250 Wheel

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–State Board of Education President Paul Hardesty worries about the lack of attention to the School Aid Formula
–A state of emergency is declared in Boone, Logan, and Raleigh Counties after this week’s high water
–We continue to look back at the 2016 flood in West Virginia
–In Sports: All State Baseball teams are announced
Listen to “MetroNews This Morning 6-25-26” on Spreaker.

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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. –The West Virginia Regional Technology Park, a premier hub for innovation and research, is celebrating 15 years of service to local and national businesses.
Tech Park CEO and Executive Director Matt Ballard
Tech Park officials, tenants, community leaders, partners and elected officials gathered Wednesday evening at the Hendrickson Conference Center on the technology park’s campus on Union Carbide Drive in South Charleston to celebrate the park’s 15th anniversary.
The

MOATSVILLE, W.Va. –The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornados touched down severe storms swept through north central West Virginia earlier this week.
The NWS confirmed Wednesday that an EF-1 tornado touched down in Barbour County Monday evening on Richman Road near Moatsville.
On Tuesday, the NWS confirmed that an EF-0 tornado touched down just south of Reubens Run Road in the Fairmont area in Marion County. The tornado downed a narrow swath of trees before quickly lifting.
The

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Morgantown-based Wisdom Academy has been awarded a grant from the state School Building Authority of $1.1 million, one of the first five grant awards to public charter schools since their inception.
Javaid Syed
Other grant recipients were the Eastern Panhandle Preparatory Academy, the Clarksburg Classical Academy, the West Virginia Academy, and the Mary Phelan Leadership Academy.
The Wisdom Academy opened last August. Since then, enrollment has doubled from 40 to 80, and

CLENDENIN, W.Va. — Ten years after the massive 2016 flood, the town of Clendenin in Kanawha County is still recovering. Mayor Kay Summers looks at it more as a rebirth than a recovery.
Kay Summers
“Before the flood, Clendenin was starting to slip. Back in the day it was a very successful, wealthy town and things had started going down even before the flood. But out of something bad, a lot of good came,” said Summers in an appearance on 580-Live with Dave Allen on 580-WCHS Radio.
It wasn’t a