New River Gorge National Park Wins Coveted Travel Ranking
The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve has been listed as the nation's top underrated travel destination by U.S. News and World Report.
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West Virginia Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2026
This year’s featured speakers will be award-winning children’s novelist R. L. Stine, nonfiction author Margot Lee Shetterley, New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn, mystery author and West Virginia native Craig Johnson, and local author and illustrator Rosalie Haizlett.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsUs & Them Encore: A Band On The Right Side History
America continues to wrestle with racial division, but music has often been a space where those barriers are challenged. In this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay revisits a 1960s moment when a band refused to perform unless a mixed-race couple was allowed to dance — and paid the price for taking that stand. It’s a story about courage, consequences and the uneasy intersection of music and race in America.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginians Protest Across State; Six Arrested In Morgantown
Demonstrators in Charleston, Parkersburg and Huntington braved the cold Tuesday to demand an end to what they called the authoritarian policies of the Trump administration.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsInternational Film Festival Returns To Charleston After Multi-Year Hiatus
The festival will screen films Saturday and Sunday at the Park Place Cinemas and the Floralee Hark Cohen Cinema.
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W.Va. Book Festival Welcomes Readers, Authors To Charleston
Festival goers can attend workshops on writing immersive fiction, and children and families are invited to take part in a storybook costume parade.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginians Join National 'No Kings' Protest Movement
At least 20 communities held their own demonstrations and rallies as part of the national No Kings movement.
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