Bluefield News

BLUEFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT Nov. 16 SECURITY: A security check was made 1:31 a.m. at Lotito park.

Hundreds of crows have taken a break during their winter migration to refuel during a pit stop in Bluefield.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd is urging the Obama administration to move forward on a new long-term transportation bill that could include funding for several key highway projects across southern West Virginia.

Mercer County Republicans will soon be choosing a new party leader. The Mercer County Republican Executive Committee will hold elections for chairman on Dec.

The Craft Memorial Library in Bluefield is hosting the Food for Fines program. Organizers are collecting food for Mercer County food pantries through a fine exchange program.

Cold Veterans Day weather shrouded parade routes in overcast skies and rain, but they failed to keep the public in Princeton and in Welch from thanking the men and women who serve their country.

The U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus will be performing a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov.

An attempt to impose new restrictions on video lottery parlors in Bluefield has failed.

A second reading of an ordinance that would have provided certain distances between establishments holding video lottery licenses in Bluefield died Tuesday for lack of a motion to approve it.

An array of West Virginia's top political leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday with executives from the state's top coal producers, vowing to form a united front in the face of what they call mixed signals and heavy-handedness from federal mining regulators.

Several arrests are made after a sex offender compliance check in Mercer County.

Bluefield Police Department Disturbance With Patron: Officers of the Bluefield Police Department responded to a call at 2:53 a.m., on Nov.

Mrs. Virginia Clark-Hebert, one of the area's most highly-respected educators who received her high school diploma from the city's segregated high school, graduated from a segregated college, taught in the high school she attended and later helped students make the transition into an integrated public school system, will be honored for a lifetime ...

The efforts of volunteers and city of Bluefield employees who are committed to making the community a cleaner and prettier place, was rewarded on Friday when the Make it Shine Program named Bluefield one of six communities statewide to be honored with a "West Virginia Make It Shine Clean Community Award." "This is so exciting," Angie Foley, ...

Officials in the city of Bluefield learned Friday that Bluefield is one of six communities statewide to receive designation as a West Virginia Make it Shine Clean Community.

Six West Virginia communities are being honored for their efforts to beautify and clean up their corporate limits.

When passengers debark in Bluefield from the Amtrak excursion train from Roanoke, Va., they will be greeted by volunteers serving lemonade - a tradition in Bluefield on days when the local temperature exceeds 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Several individuals in McDowell County have been arrested on drug-related charges as a result of an ongoing investigation, officials said Thursday.

An unsolved murder case continues to linger in Mercer County. Bluefield City Police are still seeking the missing link in what they call a crime of circumstance.

On Nov. 4, 1884, the first coal mine on the West Virginia side of the historic Pocahontas coalfields was opened by the late John Cooper and his associates.