Pro Bike Races Return To Charleston
The 2026 USA Cycling Professional Road National Championships will take place June 16-21 on the roads of downtown Charleston.
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Attorney Discusses Incident Involving W.Va. Man Dragged By Ambulance, This West Virginia Morning
Two weeks ago, on April 16, John Lucas was run over by an ambulance from the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority at 2 a.m. in Elkview. And then he was dragged for nearly two miles. He died from his injuries. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with the family’s attorney, Scott Summers, and brings us this interview.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFormer House Minority Leader Doug Skaff Dies At 48
Former House Minority Leader Doug Skaff has died, according to a social media post from Gov. Patrick Morrisey. Skaff was 48.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsDocumentary Filmmaker And W.Va. Native Morgan Spurlock, Who Skewered Fast Food Industry, Dies At 53
Documentary filmmaker and West Virginia native Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America's food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTikTok Sensation ‘Appalachian Forager’ And Ruthie Foster Has Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning
On this West Virginia Morning, we learn about an incident at a state-run psychiatric facility, we meet a TikTok sensation who forages in Appalachia and we listen to our Mountain Stage Song of the Week.
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Lawmakers Search For Answers In Elderly Patient’s Boiling Death
The commission that oversees West Virginia’s state-run hospitals questioned state officials but received few answers following the January death of a man held at a state-run psychiatric facility.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsJustice Calls For More CPS Reporting, Funding In Wake Of Child’s Death
Reports surfaced last week of the death of a 14-year-old girl leading to her mother’s arrest. Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that this was not a CPS case.
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