CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Modernization is the name of the game for the Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority as it celebrates a significant federal grant to replace its maintenance facility.
KRT is set to receive more than $21 million from the Federal Transit Administration, receiving the grant after submitting its third application for it.
“We’re really excited at the fact that the FTA chose our project out of hundreds that are submitted. The third time is the charm, and this one is

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign is popping up at locations across the community, and this year your help is needed more than ever.
Morgantown Salvation Army Commander Cpt. Dennis Smith said they are looking for volunteers to help ring the bell in front of the familiar red kettles across the community. The Morgantown Salvation Army Corps have red kettles at retailers in Morgantown, Fairmont, Westover and Mannington.
“We’re off to a slow start,” Smith said. “But, we’re

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia American Water is on the hunt for lead as “potholing” efforts are underway by the utility to identify and replace lead and certain galvanized water lines in the Charleston and Huntington areas.
The project is part of operations by West Virginia American Water to comply with upcoming EPA regulations, with crews going around the area to find lines and see if they are made of certain materials.

“We want to get about five feet away from the meter and expose what

What makes a family?
In a case decided earlier this month, justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court determined that, under the law, the main ingredients are love and support.
Justices had before them a set of unusual circumstances: an Amish couple that wanted to take in a mixed-race toddler in long-term foster care with the intent to adopt. The husband and wife had already adopted the child’s three older sisters.
The guardian ad litem, which is a court-appointed official representing the best