Beaver News

Gov. Joe Manchin is getting involved with the fight against swine flu. Manchin is due to brief the media about H1N1 with state Chief Health Officer Dr.

A Raleigh County business, more than three decades strong, adds a new service to satisfy its customer's sweet tooth.

The West Virginia Development Office plans to lead a group of eight companies on a trade mission to China.

Little Beaver State Park has become a haunted forest for the week leading up to Halloween.

Separate fires destroy several structures. Firefighters have had a busy morning in Raleigh County as they battle two separate blazes.

A mock chemical spill in Raleigh County brings first-responders, health professionals and business leaders together.

Significant progress was made over the summer in an effort to rejuvenate Greenwood Memorial Park in Beckley, but Doris Boyden-McCormick, president of Cemetery Awareness Restoration Edification, says additional community support is needed.

Youngsters in Raleigh County got a lesson in fire prevention Wednesday. October is Fire Prevention Month, so the Shady Spring Library invited the Beaver Volunteer Fire Department to demonstrate fire safety to children.

The poet T.S. Eliot wrote, 'When a cat adopts you, there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.' Connie Hudson hopes the wind never changes at her Raleigh County home.

Back in the less complicated era of the early 1960s, before America turned into a high-tech fantasy world of iPods, video games, cell phones and the like, summer nights drew rock 'n' rollers like fireflies to Little Beaver Lake.

The Coal City Volunteer Fire Department resumed operations Friday after a temporary shutdown ordered earlier this month was lifted, State Fire Marshal Sterling Lewis said.

Area businesses have a chance to make a difference in the community and get a more "relaxed" work environment.

The state Municipal League honored Beckley city leaders Tuesday night, saying their hard work, innovation and partnering with non-government agencies turned a major eyesore into a park.

The West Virginia hard rock band Bobaflex went through a typical series of changes in lineup, musical styles, and affiliations in the five years it took them from formation to their first national album release.

A trend has emerged within the past three years that sees fewer inmates sentenced to West Virginia's regional jails for minor crimes but that has made only a dent in overcrowding.

Two men killed early Sunday morning after authorities say a BMW struck a utility pole and overturned have been identified.

The Raleigh County Memorial Airport is expanding. BEAVER- -- Travelers now have two new destinations to chose from.

Burning Rock, the popular and growing all-terrain vehicle park in Raleigh County, now is under the watchful domain of the West Virginia Civilian Conservation Corps, and the transfer is no mystery.

A motorist apparently escaped injury Sunday evening after a vehicle rolled into the Interstate 64 median in Raleigh County.

Bob Micus works and learns in the library at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beaver.