W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia officials said work to widen a section of a turnpike is expected to start in a few months and continue for years, courtesy of $800 million in general obligation bonds.
The Register-Herald reports work is expected to begin in July and will widen the 8-mile section of the turnpike from the Interstate 64 split to U.S. 19 in Beckley.
State Department of Transportation Secretary Tom Smith said the project will cost about $80 million and last about two years.
Smith said another general obligation project he expects to start work soon is the Bridge to Nowhere in Mercer County.