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Interact Children’s Museum signs lease for Elkins location

ELKINS — The Interact Children’s Museum has found a “new home” in the historic Dann Building in downtown Elkins, and officials say it is expected to open its doors early 2026. On Tuesday, the ICM Board of Directors signed a two-year lease with Seneca Mall LLC for use of the Dann ...

Polling shows support for child vaccines

CHARLESTON – As the issue of whether or not Gov. Patrick Morrisey can use his executive order powers to graft on a religious exemption to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law for school-age children winds its way through the courts, new polling data continues to show majority ...

PSC approves power rate increase

CHARLESTON — Headlines about electric rate increases sometimes bring criticism, but an order issued Thursday by the West Virginia Public Service Commission includes good news for customers. According to the order, the PSC denied most of a $250.5 million electric rate increase being ...

Capito: Federal broadband dollars coming

CHARLESTON — When U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., fought to include billions in funding in the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill for nationwide broadband expansion, she had no idea five years later that zero dollars would be spent. But finally, there is light at the end of the ...

Waterline break

The city of Elkins is working to repair a waterline break on Livingston Ave. Residents in the area should expect low or no water pressure. For more information, visit https://cityofelkinswv.com/alert/water-main-under-repair/.