Franklin News

July 3, 2009 WV Motorcycle and Safety Awareness Program Showcases New Mobile Training Unit Special to Huntingtonnews.net Charleston, WV -- West Virginia's Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Program put its new mobile training unit to work last week in Franklin, WV.

May 22, 2009 BYRD'S EYE VIEW: Congratulations to The Class of 2009 From the Desk of U.S. Sen.

Do you want to have a say in the future direction of the cities of Bluefield and Princeton? You can by voting, and you don't have to wait until the June 2 municipal contests to cast your ballot.

A Franklin, West Virginia man died in a motorcycle wreck Saturday. Forty-eight-year-old James Teter was driving near the Blue Hole area on U.S. Route 33 in Rawley Springs.

A Franklin, W.Va., woman was killed Friday afternoon in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 220 at the entrance to Treasure Mountain Estates, about five miles north of Franklin.

Opponents of a bill to limit public funding of abortions in West Virginia outnumbered supporters 3-to-1 Monday at a state Capitol hearing and warned that passage of the measure would likely trigger a wave of litigation.

A boil water advisory in Pendleton County has been lifted. The advisory was issued Tuesday following a malfunction at a water treatment plant that allowed contaminated water into the water supply.

Bats from Pendleton County are being tested for a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome , a condition that has killed thousands of cave bats in several species in the Northeast, according to Craig ...

Bats suspected to be carrying white-nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has killed thousands of bats in the Northeast, have been found in four Pendleton County caves, according to the state Division of ...

Citizens National Bank of Elkins is selling its branches in Marlinton and Petersburg to Pendleton Community Bank.

A convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to exposing himself to his stepdaughter's child was sentenced Thursday to up to 30 years in prison in Kanawha Circuit Court.