It can be so quiet in the mountains, the air still and calm. The ridge overlooking Jefferson County is no exception much of the time. Silent and sentinel-like, the trees stand guard as they have for ...

In response to a court filing by a local advocacy group, the Jefferson County Planning Commission has been issued an injunction against holding a scheduled Dec. 17 public workshop on the concept plan ...

At the request of a recently appointed board member who is concerned with transparency, the Charles Town Utility Board voted unanimously at its Dec. 11 meeting to not renew a West Virginia Division of ...

I rise today to bring attention to the dangerous world that President Biden and his administration are leaving behind: a world engulfed in the flames of war in Europe and the Middle East, and ...

An illegal immigrant charged with murdering a 32-year-old Charles Town woman in May has agreed to plead guilty to felony assault charges related to two other separate violent crimes in Jefferson ...

It’s not just the mismatched color of his eyes, one blue and the other a cloudy white. It’s not just his stoic presence, enchanting charm, or piercing perceptiveness. It’s not just how he poses ...

It was an otherworldly postscript—literally and figuratively—on a tumultuous year. The reading of Genesis by the astronauts of Apollo 8 while orbiting the moon was a moment that thrilled and inspired ...

It was during a causal conversation with a longtime resident of Jefferson County that I learned a few fragments about a plane crash that occurred “not too long after then end of the [World War II] war ...

On Dec. 4, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) gave the following remarks, print as prepared, on the U.S. Senate floor on President Biden administration’s national security policies.

Last week, an elementary student violently attacked Kanawha County principal Stephanie Haynes for 38 minutes. “Myself, an assistant principal and another staff member are currently covered in bruises ...

It was early afternoon one Christmas Eve many years ago. My mother had enlisted my father and me as babysitters for my nephew, who still believed in Santa Claus and all the Christmas stories of the ...

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