2026-05-13
Your daily brief for the seven counties. The Northern Panhandle wakes up to a new political map. West Virginia’s primary night swept three of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s own picks off the state Supreme Court and Intermediate Court of Appeals, took out his House Finance Chairman, and ended Hancock-Brooke
2026-05-12
Your daily brief for the seven counties. The day in one paragraph It’s Election Day in West Virginia, with polls open until 7:30 tonight under closed Republican rules and a new photo-ID requirement. About 67,000 West Virginians already voted early — turnout a hair higher than the last
2026-05-11
Your daily news brief for the Valley. The day in one paragraph. West Virginia votes Tuesday — and the most-watched race isn’t a Senate race, it’s the fight between Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito over who controls the state’s own Republican legislature. On the eve
2026-05-10
Your Mother’s Day news brief for the Valley. The week in one paragraph It is a Mother’s Day weekend, the West Virginia primary is Tuesday, and gas at the pump in Ohio is $4.72/gallon — about $1.40 more than this time last year, the highest level
2026-05-09
Your daily brief for the Valley The day in one paragraph Jefferson County’s overdose deaths in the first four months of 2026 — eight already — are nearly equal to the entire 2025 total. Wheeling’s sewage plant is going to smell for three to four weeks while it cleans out
Your daily news brief for the Ohio Valley. The day in one paragraph A bigger story than yesterday landed Thursday in Steubenville: an Omaha company called Tenaska told Jefferson County commissioners it wants to build a 1,700-megawatt gas-fired power plant on a 562-acre parcel in Saline Township — and then
Your daily news brief for the Ohio Valley. The day in one paragraph Two days after Tuesday's primary, the dust is settling and the bills are coming due. AEP's CEO told analysts Tuesday that the company is openly considering leaving the regional grid operator that sets
Your daily news brief across the Ohio Valley. Ohio's primary is in the books and the November ballot is mostly settled — locally and statewide. Down on the river, Steubenville renewed two income-tax levies at 75% support, Belmont County swapped out an auditor and a commissioner, and Wheeling Council
Your daily news brief for the Ohio Valley. Ohio polls are open today, 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. While you're deciding what to do at the kitchen table, two big stories landed Monday that don't get a vote but will shape the
Your daily brief — election-eve edition. The day in one paragraph Polls open in Ohio at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow, and the headlines split three ways. First, the ballot: Jefferson County, Marietta, and Belmont County all face contested primaries, and the West Virginia primary is now eight days out, with